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Australia - General
austinsearch_ In Search of Australia and the South Pacific (used hardcover) By Unstated.
1994, Reader's Digest, 160pp, glossy pictorial boards, 11x9", solor photos throughout.
(VG+, no DJ, as issued. Covers slightly rubbed.)
Reader's Digest People and Places Series.
Australia ,
New Zealand ,
Philippines ,
French Polynesia,
Papua New Guinea (Indonesia )
and New Caledonia.
A glossy pictorial tour of the South Pacific, featuring 50% text and
50% high-quality color photos.
$12.00
3 lbs
austbow_ Australia Take a Bow: A Photographic Salute to Australia on the Occasion of its Bicentenary (used hardcover) By Brian Morris.
1988, St. Martin's Press, 288pp, Coffee table style photo book. Rich color photography throughout.
(Fair in G DJ in wraps. Xlib with usual markings. Weak hinges, several pages torn and taped, and well-thumbed page edges but contents in good condition. 1st U.S. edition.)
A large-format photo book of Australia, one of the best available. Text only in captions and introduction.
Interesting browsing for Australophiles.
$12.00
5 lbs
austnatpar_ In Praise of Australian National Parks (used hardcover) By Vincent Serventy (introduction).
1977, Rigby (Australia), 80pp, 12x10". Large format color photo book on Australia's many National Parks. Landscape photos with captions.
(Good in Good+ DJ in wraps. Library discard with usual markings)
$13.50
2.5 lbs
austrfood_ The New Austrlian Food Guide: Vital Facts About the Foods We Consume (used trade paperback) By Andrew Woods.
1995, Pancake Press, 96pp. "Includes information about: Allergies, hyperactivity, preservatives, carcenogenic chemicals, food additives, artificial colours and flavours, food acids".
(VG+)
$7.00
1 lb
ngdownundr Surprising Lands Down Under (used hardcover) By Mary Ann Harrell.
1989, National Geographic Society, 196pp. Illustrated by Photographs, maps.
(Near Fine in VG DJ)
$5.50
2 lbs
fatalshore The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding (used hardcover) By Robert Hughes.
1986, Alfred A Knopf, 688pp. "Account of the birth of Australia out of the suffering and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. For eighty years, the country served as an enormous jail as England rid herself of a whole, unwanted class: small-time criminals." Published at $24.95.
(Good in Good DJ. Spine partially broken but neatly mended)
$3.00
3 lbs
therocknov The Rock (new mass-market paperback) By Robert Doherty. 1996, Dell. Novel set in Australia, by author of 'Area 51'. "In Australia, strange electronic transmissions are emanating from Ayer's Rock, the stone hill arising out of the Outback. When top level scientific and military advisors from the U.S. And Russia drill for clues, they discover an unusual black wall hidden deep inside. Mysterious occurences at the site of an explosion led to the discovery of the same type wall in Siberia".
(1/6/00) - Also listed on Area 51 Fiction .
$6.50
0.5 lbs
lpaustbush Lonely Planet Bushwalking in Australia (used trade paperback) By John Chapman
and Monica Chapman.
1997, Lonely Planet, 353pp. Third edition (latest). Describes wilderness hikes throughout Australia.
(VG+. Prev. owner's address stamp on edge of page block)
$11.50
1 lb
aunowheres Greater Nowheres: A Journey through the Australian Bush (used hardcover) By Dave Finkelstein
and Jack London
and Philip Caputo (foreword).
1988, Harper & Row, 313pp. "Setting off in a small Toyota truck and supplied with the inevitable insect repellent and case full of beer, the authors began an odyssey that took them thousands of miles through some of the most forbidding country in the world."
(Library discard with usual markings. VG in VG DJ in mylar wraps. FEP removed)
$5.50
2 lbs
kingfisher Flight of the Kingfisher: A Journey Among the Kukatja Aborigines (used trade paperback) By Monica Furlong.
1996 (1997), Flamingo/Harper Collins, 178pp, 8x5". Recounts the author's experience staying among the Aboriginal community of Wirrumanu at Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia.
(Library discard with usual markings. Good+. Small white bare patch on back cover where a label was removed)
$15.00
1 lb
