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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $94, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXAUS163)		  
In a Sunburned Country  •  Bill Bryson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 335 PAGES • FAVORITE
Nothing seems to deter the intrepid, ever-resourceful Bill Bryson -- and all the better for his many readers. Here he revels in Australia's eccentric characters, dangerous flora and fauna, and other oddities. As has become his custom, he also effortlessly imparts much history in this wildly funny book. (AUS83, $15.99)		   In a Sunburned Country
Bradt Australian Wildlife  •  Stella Martin
NATURAL HISTORY •  2010 •  PAPER  • 196 PAGES
A guide not just to kangaroo and koala, this compact, illustrated survey, featuring 250 color photographs, takes in habitats, parks and conservation, marsupials, birds and bats. (AUS248, $26.99)		   Bradt Australian Wildlife
Aboriginal Australians  •  Stephen Muecke
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2004 •  PAPER  • 127 PAGES
A lively illustrated overview of the culture and history of the Aborigines. The authors explore how the aborigines came to be in Australia, their rituals and Dreamings, and the importance of kin in their social structures. With a chapter on the atrocious treatment at the hands of white settlers and the pervasive racial prejudice that remained enshrined in the Australian constitution until 1967. The final section deals with the massive indigenous cultural renaissance over the past four decades, and discusses how Aboriginal art -- whether Central Desert acrylic art, batik, contemporary urban painting, sculpture or traditional bark painting -- has become a flagship for Australian culture. (AUS230, $15.95)		   Aboriginal Australians
Eyewitness Guide Australia  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 616 PAGES
A compact guide to sites, attractions and places throughout Australia featuring excellent maps and hundreds of full color photographs and site diagrams. With select recommendations on where to eat and stay. (AUS101, $30.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Australia
Australia Map  •  ITMB
2010 •  MAP
This large folded map of Australia, at a scale of 1:3,500,000, includes national parks, reserves and roads, all clearly marked. Two Sides. 34x40 inches. (AUS23, $12.95)		   Australia Map



Also Recommended

Culture Smart! Australia  •  Barry Penney   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (AUS189, $9.95)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Sydney  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This superb guide to Sydney features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. (AUS25, $23.00)
 		  
A Commonwealth of Thieves, The Improbable Birth of Australia  •  Thomas Keneally   • HISTORY  •  Keneally illuminates the birth of New South Wales with drama and flair, richly evoking the social conditions in London, long sea voyage and the conditions in Australia. (AUS177, $16.00)
 		  
The Fatal Shore  •  Robert Hughes   • HISTORY • FAVORITE  •  In this celebrated social history, both scholarly and entertaining, Hughes traces the fate of those who were transported to the penal colonies of Australia between 1787 and 1868. It's an engaging popular account, drawn from the experiences of the colonists themselves. (AUS04, $19.95)
 		  
The Songlines  •  Bruce Chatwin   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE  •  Chatwin transforms a journey through the Outback into an exhilarating, semi-fictional meditation on our place in the world. (AUS01, $16.00)
 		  
Aboriginal Art  •  Wally Caruana   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This well illustrated survey focuses on the spiritual and geographic sources of art and ritual traditions in Australia. With 187 well produced black-and-white and color illustrations. (AUS14, $14.95)
 		  
Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines  •  Julia Blackburn   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In this wonderfully original biography, Blackburn recreates the life of Daisy Bates (1861-1951), who abandoned her comfortable surroundings in 1913 to live for 30 years in the wilderness. It opens memorably "There was once a woman who lived in the desert." (AUS37, $15.00)
 		  
My Place  •  Sally Morgan   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A deeply moving autobiography of three generations in Australia, which artfully evokes aboriginal culture. Morgan, who spent her childhood in Perth, didn't discover her Aboriginal background until she was in her teens. (AUS19, $19.95)
 		  
The Road from Coorain  •  Jill Ker Conway   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An absorbing account of a young rural girl's coming of age in post-war Sydney. Conway paints a vivid picture of isolation and beauty -- and of the challenges of a bright, ambitious woman growing up Australian. (AUS03, $13.95)
 		  
Australia, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Robert Ross   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Arranged geographically, this collection of works by mostly local writers, including Patrick White, Peter Carey and other luminaries introduces the cultures, geography and mindset of Australia. (AUS38, $13.95)
 		  
Gunshot Road  •  Adrian Hyland   • MYSTERY  •  In the second Emily Tempest investigation, Emily is working as a police officer in the harsh landscape of northern Australia. (AUS250, $25.00)
 		  
Moonlight Downs  •  Adrian Hyland   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  The Ned Kelly Award-winning first Emily Tempest investigation set in the Australia. Emily, a half-white, half-Aboriginal woman returns to her hometown in the Outback only to find that the tribe's elderly leader has been murdered. (AUS251, $14.00)
 		  
The Bone is Pointed  •  Arthur Upfield   • MYSTERY  •  This Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mystery finds the half-Aborigine detective in the place he knows best, the Australian outback, where he is investigating the disappearance of a local scoundrel. (AUS171, $20.95)
 		  
The Nutmeg of Consolation  •  Patrick O'Brian   • LITERATURE  •  This 14th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series finds Captain Aubrey and his crew shipwrecked and making their way to the penal colony at Botany Bay, the notorious first European settlement in Australia. (AUS17, $15.95)
 		  
The Secret River  •  Kate Grenville   • LITERATURE  •  Inspired by the history of her own family, Kate Grenville evokes all the bravado, trickery and conflict over the settlement of New South Wales in her tale of a Thames boatsman banished to the new colony in 1806 (AUS179, $14.00)
 		  
The Turning, New Stories  •  Tim Winton   • LITERATURE  •  These 17 overlapping stories, steeped in everyday life on western Australia, follow the fates of a handful of characters in a small coastal town outside Perth. Winton, short-listed twice so far for the Booker Prize, has published a string of memorable novels, children's books and stories, all richly set in the working class milieu of the sparsely populated coastal desert. (AUS169, $15.00)
 		  
True History of the Kelly Gang  •  Peter Carey   • LITERATURE  •  Carey's powerful, daring novel, steeped in the colonial history of late 19th-century Australia, won him a second Booker (the first was for Oscar & Lucinda). Outlaw, folk hero, thief and patriot, the Irish immigrant Ned Kelly and his clan figure large in the Australian mindset. (AUS119, $15.95)
 		  
Australia, Land Beyond Time  •  IMAX   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A dazzling overview of Australia, its geology, evolution, culture and wildlife on DVD, originally presented in IMAX theatres. (AUS168, $14.99)
 		  
Chasing Kangaroo  •  Tim Flannery   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  In this ode to the kangaroo, Flannery weaves his own coming of age as a scientist with tales of the strange marsupial, past and present. (AUS186, $14.00)
 		  
The Snorkeller's Guide to the Coral Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean  •  Paddy Ryan   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The best-selling, take-along guide to coral reefs, coral-reef fishes, invertebrates and plants of the Indo-Pacific. With 200 color photographs. (DIV18, $21.99)
 		  
Treasures of the Great Barrier Reef  •  WGBH   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  This 60-minute Nova documentary captures the diversity and abundance of the fish and invertebrates of the coral reef in dazzling color. (AUS196, $19.95)
 		  
Australian Birds  •  Pocket Naturalist   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A laminated card featuring commonly encountered Australian birds. (AUS99, $5.95)
 		  
Australian Wildlife  •  Raymond Leung  •  James Kavanaugh   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This handy fold-out guide features illustrations of almost 150 species of Australian animals. Laminated and pocket-sized, it easily slips into your daypack. (AUS111, $5.95)
 		  
Birds of Australia, Photographic Field Guide  •  Jim Flegg   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This pocket guide features large color photographs and brief description of commonly encountered and spectacular birds. (AUS12, $25.00)
 		  
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia  •  Ken Simpson  •  Nicholas Day   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A handbook and field guide to Australia's birds with 2,000 vivid color illustrations, each accompanied by a brief description and revised range map. (AUS06, $39.50)
 		  
Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia  •  Peter Menkhorst  •  Frank Knight   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive guide to 376 species (kangaroos, bandicoots, koalas, wombats, and more), featuring 376 full color illustrations. (AUS117, $50.00)
 		  
Fishwatcher's Field Guide, Great Barrier Reef  •  Idaz Greenberg   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A double-sided, laminated card. (DIV41, $7.50)
 		  
 
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