Australia Books


Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story Best Price: $14.50 I thought the author became a bit lost between the history of the Maori people and her own...	The Songlines Best Price: $5.75 The first sentence sounded promising:"In Alice Springs - a grid of scorching streets where...	The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding Best Price: $2.74 "The Fatal Shore" by Robert Hughes is the one book which is always mentioned when it...	The Road from Coorain Best Price: $1.22 Not very interesting. There's not much else I can say. Everybody has a story, including...	The Brotherhoods: Inside the Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs Best Price: $8.88 Professor Veno has done what most scholars could not do in their life time. He has earned the...



Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age Best Price: $25.20 Daniel Rodgers' thesis in Atlantic Crossings is simple and direct: "the reconstruction of...	The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific Best Price: $7.99 A terrific read, Theroux has the courage to be politically incorrect in an age where Americans...	Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over Best Price: $7.85 Geraldine Brooks has written a book that I can empathise with. I think of how I might have had...	The Journals of Captain Cook (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.34 I wanted to like this book. I really did. When I saw it online, I thought that it looked...	Ancient Hawaii Best Price: $8.90 Herb Kawainui Kane (pronounced KAH-ney) is a master artist, voyaging canoe designer, and...



Australia ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Australia (Country Abcs) Best Price: $3.93 This is a wonderful book to help children learn about Australia. It's beautifully illustrated too!	The Mongols (The Peoples of Europe) Best Price: $24.60 David Morgan has written a fascinating book on the history of the Mongols and Genghis Khan. The...	A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia Best Price: $7.50 Keneally has produced a fascinating introduction to the foundation of Australia, a fantastic mix...	Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written Best Price: $6.80 I have read Endurance (about Shakelon's trip) and been to Antarctica in the last few years. The...	Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society Best Price: $20.47 The book arrived within two weeks of my ordering it and was in the condition advertised.

Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century) Best Price: $20.65 A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an...	Wise Women of the Dreamtime: Aboriginal Tales of the Ancestral Powers Best Price: $7.52 I bought this book with the hope of finding something more authentic than some of the more...	The High Valley Best Price: $26.98 This book relates the adventures of Kenneth Read, a young anthropologist who set off to do field...	Canadian Studies: An Introductory Reader Best Price: $65.00	Dancing With Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact Best Price: $4.99 This is a thoughtful, insightful look at the initial contacts between Australia's indigenous...

Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes In World War II (Transitions--Asia and Asian America) Best Price: $17.31 The most outstanding attribute of this book is its honest depiction of Japan's atrocities. The...	Vietnam Firebases 1965-73: American and Australian Forces (Fortress) Best Price: $11.19 The firebases and their desciptions deal primarily of the areas in the FRAC area of operations....	Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land Best Price: $6.45 This engaging account places Australia's history in a global context, drawing on sources from...	In a Sunburned Country Best Price: $29.47 I read this book on the way to Sydney a couple of years ago at the beginning of a project...	The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) Best Price: $21.99 This is an absolutely fascinating book. It tells how the men of Ilahita, a village in the Sepik...

Aboriginal Art (World of Art) Best Price: $5.69 This is a truly great book about a truly mind blowing development in the otherwise tepid (and...	A History of Japan (Blackwell History of the World) Best Price: $34.65 I had the good fortune to use (the first edition of) Conrad Totman's "History of...	The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People Best Price: $26.95 I bought this book to learn more about the primal religious practices of the Aboriginal people. ...	AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll: The Ultimate Story of the World's Greatest Rock-and-Roll Band Best Price: $7.76 I discovered AC/DC back in college (circa 1988). Since then I've gotten all their albums and...	Throwim' Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds Best Price: $4.78 I had never heard of this book, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is about a biologists...

Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty (Canto original series) Best Price: $40.32 "I am a professor of parables," writes author Greg Dening, "and the Bounty is a...	Sock It to 'Em, Baby: Forward Air Controller in Vietnam Best Price: $13.61 Excellent! An unvarnished account of precisely what it was like to be a forward air controller...	Aboriginal Designs (Design Source Books) Best Price: $5.59 Beautiful and easy to reproduce, the designs in this collection are a rich source of inspiration...	The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China 221 B.C. to AD 1757 (Studies in Social Discontinuity) Best Price: $22.33 My history professor claims that this is one book which former students complain about years...	A Concise History of Australia (Cambridge Concise Histories) Best Price: $24.13 According to the author, Australian history is 200 years of racism, sexism, oppression,...

My Place Best Price: $14.98 There are some one- to three-star reviews for this book which suggest that it (a) is boring, (b)...	A Concise History of New Zealand (Cambridge Concise Histories) Best Price: $3.96 A Concise History of New Zealand is exactly that -- concise. It is an "easy read". ...	Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny Best Price: $8.50 This was a very well researched story about history's bloodiest mutiny. I found the most...	Place Names of Hawaii (Revised) Best Price: $8.78 This book is a treasure. "Place Names of Hawaii" is an exceptional and important...	Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World The history uses many cartoonists, many cartoon styles. Text outside the cartoons is minimized....

Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art (Objects/Histories) Best Price: $16.15 If you get through it it is very interesting, but you better be ready for some dry academic writing.	The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier Best Price: $7.57 This is an anthology of excerpts from Australian Explorers journals ranging from early sixteenth...	The Day the World Exploded: The Earthshaking Catastrophe at Krakatoa Best Price: $7.99 Eruptions. Explosions. Shock waves. Tsunamis. The almighty explosion that...	Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863The Tide Turns at Gettysburg Best Price: $10.89 This is one of the best and most well written accounts on the battle of Little Round Top to...	The Girl From Botany Bay Best Price: $1.99 I BOUGHT THIS BOOK THINKING IT WAS A NOVEL. I WAS DISSAPOINTED WHEN I FOUND IT WAS NOT. I WAS...

A History of the Pacific Islands Best Price: $30.28 This is a very well-written introduction to South Pacific history, with the additional bonus of...	At Home in Bali Best Price: $30.43 This book has given me many great ideas as we are redoing our outdoor area in Perth, Western...	Aboriginal Art A&I (Art and Ideas) Best Price: $16.49 Over the past two decades, Aboriginal art from Australia has been gathering momentum as a major...	The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban Best Price: $7.01 "The Punishment of Virtue" gives the reader great insight into the political...	The Enigmas of Easter Island Best Price: $75.00 Flenley and Bahn have created an incredibly comprehensive reconstruction of Easter Island's...

Alaska (Traveller's Wildlife Guides) Best Price: $17.43 I found the book to be very informative and well organized. The photos were a tremendous aid to...	We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Revised) Best Price: $20.40 The best treatment of traditional Pacific navigation practices, written by someone who actually...	The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England Best Price: $40.10 This is a great book by a brilliant historian who is deeply revered on both sides of the...	Australian Language & Culture (Language Reference) Best Price: $4.45 This is an interesting book for someone who has not been to Australia. Although there are...	Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty (History of Communication) Best Price: $13.99 As N. Chomsky brilliantly states, `Alex Carey draws the veil of deceit and imposed ignorance in...

Tiki of Hawaii Best Price: $8.00 This little book is a great read -- the first chapter is an accurate history of Tikis in...	Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime (Inner Traditions) Best Price: $11.98 Well well well, I fully expected to find a five star reader rating here. I guess I forgot that...	The Indian Ocean (Seas in History) Best Price: $30.74 This is a splendid book that I would love to use as the core text in a new course on the Indian...	The Proving Ground Best Price: $39.84 I read An Extreme Event (about the 98 Sydney-Hobart race) prior to reading Knecht's book, so...

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