Australia

William Heinemann Australia, 1987. With Foreword by Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Used copy. Read once gently. Dust jacket slightly rubbed. A touch of foxing (age discoloration) to the bottom edge. Otherwise clean, unmarked, tight copy. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 518 Pages. more information

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Allen & Unwin, 1999. Unread but shelf worn. Bottom corner of back cover has a small crease. Black line across the bar code on the back cover. Otherwise clean, unmarked, tight. Spine not creased. Soft Cover. Good. 242 Pages. more information

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Penguin Books, 1987. Unread but shelf worn. Small tear to front cover at bottom of spine. Owner's name on first page. Pages showing signs of tanning. A single light crease to spine. Soft Cover. Good. 407 Pages. more information

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Viking, 1986. Used copy. Dust jacket edge worn. Book is clean, unmarked, tight. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 407 Pages. more information

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Lonely Planet Publications, 1996. Later printing. Read once, gently. Clean, unmarked, tight copy. Spine not creased. From the back cover: Sean Condon is young, urban and a connoisseur of hair wax. He can't drive, and he doesn't really travel well. So when Sean and his friend David set out to explore Australia in a duck-egg blue 1966 Ford Falcon, the result is a decidedly offbeat look at life on the road. Over 14,000 death-defying kilometres, our heroes check out the re-runs on tv, get fabulously drunk, listen to Neil Young and wonder why they ever left home. 'Sean & David's Long Drive' mixes sharp insights with deadpan humour and outright lies. Crank it up and read it out loud. Soft Cover. Very Good. 289 Pages. more information

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Hellgate Press, 1999. New book with some shelf wear from storage. Soft Cover. Very Good. 225 Pages. more information

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The Macquarie Library, 2001. Third Revised Edition (2001). 2002 printing. New book. Since it was first published in 1981, the Macquarie Dictionary has become firmly established as the voice of Australian English. Many smaller and specialised dictionaries, as well as thesauruses and other reference works have contributed to Macquarie's reputation as Australia's leading language reference publisher. The flagship of the range of publications produced by Macquarie remains the complete version of the dictionary, the most comprehensive account of Australian English ever produced. The Macquarie has been constantly evolving over the past two decades. With the second edition, published in 1991, the Macquarie became encyclopedic, including entries on people and places of Australia and the rest of the world. The third edition, in 1997, made use of Macquarie's corpus of Australian English (Ozcorp), with thousands of illustrative sentences being included from works of Australian literature. The third edition was revised in 2001. Hard Cover. New/New. 2223 Pages. more information

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The Macquarie Library, 2005. Fourth Edition. Still unopened in shrink wrap. Since it was first published in 1981, the Macquarie Dictionary has become firmly established as the voice of Australian English. Many smaller and specialised dictionaries, as well as thesauruses and other reference works have contributed to Macquarie's reputation as Australia's leading language reference publisher. The flagship of the range of publications produced by Macquarie remains the complete version of the dictionary, the most comprehensive account of Australian English ever produced. The Macquarie has been constantly evolving over the past two decades. With the second edition, published in 1991, the Macquarie became encyclopedic, including entries on people and places of Australia and the rest of the world. The third edition, in 1997, made use of Macquarie's corpus of Australian English (Ozcorp), with thousands of illustrative sentences being included from works of Australian literature. The third edition was revised in 2001. Now, the fourth edition of this major work has emerged, with even more improvements and new features. Hard Cover. New/New. 1712 Pages. more information

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Elibron Classics, 2006. New book as received from the publisher. A facsimile reprint of a 1913 edition by Smith, Elder & Co., London. Soft Cover. New. 402 Pages. more information

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Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company, 1999. 2002 reprint. Read once, gently. Clean, unmarked, tight copy. Spine not creased. The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest. This bestselling anthology, brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us beyond the frontier into a world of danger, compassion, humour, brutality and death. "The Explorers" includes the work of Wills, Giles, Leichhardt, Sturt, Eyre and Mitchell, and a host of other fascinating figures. Here, in one place, is the most remarkable body of non-fiction writing ever produced in Australia. Soft Cover. Very Good. 385 Pages. more information

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Viking, 2001. New book as received from the publisher. First Edition. Soft Cover. New. 296 Pages. more information

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Penguin Books, 1988. Read once, gently. Clean, unmarked, tight copy. Paperback edition of a British author's account of his travels in Australia, first published by Hamish Hamilton in 1987 and made into a TV series. Includes a map. 'Entertaining ... real insights ... this is a book about exotic Australia, the fringes, the deserts, the opal mines, the Aborigines, and the North Queensland rednecks' (Guardian). Soft Cover. Very Good. 380 Pages. more information

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Hodder and Stoughton, 1983. Read once gently. Light shelf wear to covers and dust jacket. Clean, unmarked, tight copy. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 256 Pages. more information

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1st Books, 2002. Read once, gently. Back cover has a small crease at bottom, fore edge corner. Clean, unmarked, tight copy. Spine not creased. In "Australia, A Nation at Loss" we enter a world where lies, racism and deception rule. It is a unique and triumphant factual story of one man's crusade to succeed against all adds in far lands, that makes the book completely unforgettable. The author immerses the reader in a world we would have never known to exist within Australia if this book was not written. His immense treasure of thoughts and observations makes the book a very deep insight into life in Australia, and unravels mentality, society and attitudes hardly known, nor publicized. The book examines the Australian society by in-depth analysis of people behind the image, compares with other western societies, and arrives at surprising conclusions never known about Australia. Soft Cover. Very Good. 148 Pages. more information

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Indigo, 1997. Read once, gently. Clean, unmarked, tight copy. Spine not creased. From the back cover: Knowing nothing of Australia except the lager-ad cliches of sun and surf, ockers and sheilas, kangaroos and didgeridoos, Mark McCrum arrives Down Under. Hitching, flying, by Greyhound and by train, he makes his picaresque way around the vast brown land. From royalist hippies to republican cattle-ranchers, from Queensland jillaroos to Indo-Chinese immigrants, from Perth millionaires to desert Aboriginals, he meets modern Aussies of every kind. Soft Cover. Very Good. 316 Pages. more information

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Oxford University Press, 2008. New book as received from the publisher. From the back cover: "Speaking Our Language" tells for the first time the story of Australian English - where it came from, the forces that moulded it, why it takes its present form, and where it is going. The story begins with Joseph Banks and Captain James Cook in 1770, and it continues to the present day, when Australian English is firmly established as the natural and national language of Australia. It explains how and when the Australian accent developed, and how and when a distinctive vocabulary was created. It is a 'story' in another sense as well: the story of the development of Australian English is inextricably intertwined with the stories of Australian history and culture, and of the development of Australian identity. Soft Cover. New. 225 Pages. more information

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Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company, 2002. Read once, gently. Clean, unmarked, tight copy with a single, light crease to spine. From the back cover: In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O'Hara Burke led a cavalcade of camels, wagons and men out of Melbourne. Accompanied by William Wills, a shy English scientist, he was prepared to risk everything to become the first European to cross the Australian continent. A few months later, an ancient coolibah tree at Cooper Creek bore a strange carving: "Dig Under 3ft NW". Burke, Wills and five other men were dead. The expedition had become an astonishing tragedy. Sarah Murgatroyd reveals new historical and scientific evidence to tell the full story of the disaster with all its heroism and romance, its discoveries, coincidences and lost opportunities. Generously illustrated with photographs, paintings and maps, "The Dig Tree" is a spell-binding book. Soft Cover. Very Good. 372 Pages. more information

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Melbourne University Press, 2000. Read once, gently. Clean, unmarked, tight copy. Spine not creased. "This very important work is a fundamental rewriting of Australian history from 1943 to 1968. It argues that after World War II, Australian defence policy was premised on Joint nuclear weapons development with the United Kingdom; and that while this endeavour failed, it shaped domestic and foreign policy until the end of the 1950s. Nuclear weapons have traditionally been seen as American and British concerns, and various official histories have held that the development of rockets and atomic weapon testing were essentially British exercises. But author Wayne Reynolds reveals an entirely new perspective on Australia's role in these events. "Australia's Bid for the Atomic Bomb" examines the implications of this for major social, political and security issues and developments in Austalia's recent history. This work will arouse considerable media interest, and will appeal to anyone interested in Australia's political and military history". Soft Cover. Very Good. 284 Pages. more information

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National Geographic Society, 2000. New book as received from the publisher. The author and journalist describes his nine-month, ten-thousand mile journey through Australia by bicycle, detailing the cattle stations, mining towns, Aboriginal communities, rain forests, deserts, and Australian Outback. By the time he returned to Sydney, he had discovered an Australia that eludes the casual traveler.This is his evocative, eventful report, an affectionate portrait of his adopted country and its colorful people. Soft Cover. New. 284 Pages. more information

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Simon and Schuster, 1987. Appears unread with light shelf wear. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 354 Pages. more information

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Major Mitchell Press, 1989. New book with a small crease to bottom fore edge corner of front cover. Soft Cover. Fine. 96 Pages. more information

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Major Mitchell Press, 1993. New copy with a small bump to the bottom of spine. Soft Cover. Very Good. 127 Pages. more information

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Major Mitchell Press, 1999. New book. Vegemite, no matter how you spread it, is utterly Zen, as is Claytons, the mysterious substance symbolic of the artificial and illusory nature of the universe. Just as in Buddhist Zen there is no outside reality, in Australian Zen there is no reality outside Australia. And just as in Eastern Zen you are told that being happy or sad or worried or miserable or depressed is an illusion, the same thing is true for Australia, where you only think you’re travelling to London or New York or Shanghai or Paris or Bali, but it’s just an illusion. The only reality is here in Australia. Robert Treborlang explains how Aussie "cultcha" is quintessentially ZEN! He also reveals how the Noble Eightfold Path of Righteousness and the Ten Noble Precepts are to be found in everyday Australian life. Soft Cover. New. 124 Pages. more information

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Writers Club Press, 2000. Read once, gently. Clean, unmarked copy with no visible flaws. Tourists can be funny, strange and eccentric. The local people in the Outback of Australia might seem different too, with their laconic attitude and slower pace than city slickers. What better way to observe them then travelling as tour guide, cook and driver on outback safaris? For many years the author did just that. Here are his yarns of the humorous sides of his travels. It is not a travel guide, just observations of people and situations in the Big Country. This first bundle of stories of funny people and comical events in Australia is based on the writer's experiences. Soft Cover. Very Good. 97 Pages. more information

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