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 Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)Well written account of life on a submarine at the heart of the cold war. Worth a read. |  Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible VoyageBest Price: $4.49 This book is a treasure. It's hands down the best retelling of a survivor tale that I've read.... |  A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (Great Discoveries)Best Price: $13.17 There are probably only a handful of scientists the average educated person could name, among... |  The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic ExpeditionBest Price: $10.00 Excellent book; well presented with photo's. Difficult to put down. It was recommended by Jeff... |  The SonglinesBest Price: $7.49 The first sentence sounded promising:"In Alice Springs - a grid of scorching streets where... |
 The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South PacificBest Price: $12.95 Great book. I couldnt put it down. Well written. Anyone interested in history should read... |  The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's FoundingBest Price: $4.95 In short this book has taught me a great deal about the history of Australia and I totally... |  The Brotherhoods: Inside the Outlaw Motorcycle ClubsBest Price: $8.82 As others have pointed out, this book probably is more relevant to the aussie bike scene than... |  The Road from CoorainBest Price: $1.20 Not very interesting. There's not much else I can say. Everybody has a story, including... |  Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the WorldBest Price: $5.99 In January of 1864, the Australian schooner, Grafton, wrecked on Auckland Island, an... |
 The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the PacificBest Price: $8.98 It's been some years since I read this book but it still comes back loud and clear - what a... |  Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone BeforeBest Price: $1.50 Blue latitudes is an excellent book about Cook's adventures in the Pacific and about the person... |  Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York EskimoBest Price: $4.99 Poor Minik, captured by white traders and brought to Manhattan to be a freak! It was the age of... |  Australia ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Australia (Country Abcs)Best Price: $3.93 none |  Ancient HawaiiBest Price: $8.98 Liked the story. LOVED the artwork. If you're only going to have one book on Hawaii's history,... |
 So You Want to Live in HawaiiBest Price: $10.53 I can't say enough about the honesty in this book. This book does not sugar coat, living in... |  The Last Place on Earth (Modern Library Exploration)Best Price: $8.90 Stellar story that was painstakenly researched. This is the kind of book that inspires one to... |  Kaua'I Trails: Walks, Strolls, and Treks on the Garden Island (Kauai Trails: Walks, Strolls & Treks on the Garden Island)Best Price: $7.50 This book was a great help in planning our relatively short one week stay in Hawaii. It showed... |  Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All OverBest 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: $6.19 I wanted to like this book. I really did. When I saw it online, I thought that it looked... |
 An Island to OneselfBest Price: $19.96 This book is so good that i could not put it down. I I have often daydreamed about living on a... |  The Emperor's Silent Army: Terracotta Warriors of Ancient ChinaBest Price: $10.19 While on vacation in China, Jane O'Connor visited the thousands of life-sized terracotta warrior... |  Wise Women of the Dreamtime: Aboriginal Tales of the Ancestral PowersBest Price: $6.45 I bought this book with the hope of finding something more authentic than some of the more... |  My PlaceBest Price: $16.95 There are some one- to three-star reviews for this book which suggest that it (a) is boring, (b)... |  A Night to RememberBest Price: $1.22 Walter Lord did his homework on the Titanic's fateful night in this unforgettable and memorable... |
 TracksBest Price: $7.88 This book was so inspiring, I had to order it twice. I had lent my original copy which was... |  Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Perennial Classics)Best Price: $5.49 Dr. Meade truly was one of the most well-known American Anthropologists in the 20th Century. Her... |  From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii (Latitude 20 Books)Best Price: $16.70 It is encouraging to have a Hawaiian book on Indigenism that, through the perceptions and words... |  Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton, and the Changing Face of HeroismBest Price: $8.50 An authoritative and well researched review. The author has used her literary skills with... |  View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer EverestBest Price: $3.68 Sir Edmund Hillary was clearly a remarkable man with his life marked particularly by the first... |
 The Worst Journey in the World (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $10.14 Apsley Cherry-Garrard was only 24 when he set out on Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition. He... |  In a Sunburned CountryBest Price: $4.19 Bill Bryson's take on Australia is hilarious. I'm going there in a few weeks and can't wait to... |  Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the ArcticBest Price: $5.12 This is a very interesting true story, of four young men lured to their deaths in the polar... |  Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom (Asao Special Publications ; No. 1)Best Price: $12.50 Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's... |  Hawaii The Big Island Revealed; The Ultimate GuidebookBest Price: $30.00 With the purchase of Hawaii The Big Island Revealed I now have the entire set of... |
 Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to AntarcticaBest Price: $14.11 Griffiths opens his book: "To voyage towards Antarctica is to go beyond the boundary of... |  Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest MutinyBest Price: $6.85 I came across the bloody story of the shipwrecked Batavia as a footnote somewhere and decided... |  People of the Deer (Death of a People)Best Price: $8.25 The concept is correct anyway. These people were led to their demise by three factors: the... |  Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War IIBest Price: $5.75 Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Stalingrad, Iwo Jima. These are just a handful of the battles that come... |  The Worst Journey in the WorldBest Price: $5.71 Cherry-Garrard is a truly a literate,educated man, writing his experiences as well as including... |
 Argonauts of the Western PacificBest Price: $17.25 This is a real classic in the history of anthropology, published in 1922, and unlike another... |  The Mongols (The Peoples of Europe)Best Price: $23.12 Morgan writes an academic book of 13th century Mongolian history, culture and building of their... |  Aboriginal Designs (Design Source Books)Best Price: $5.33 Beautiful and easy to reproduce, the designs in this collection are a rich source of inspiration... |  Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime (Inner Traditions)Best Price: $12.00 Now this is a book i would recommend: Yorro Yorro: Aboriginal Creation and the Renewal of... |  Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic ExplorerBest Price: $22.96 I enjoyed this book. It's a short read but certainly with some substance. Ernest Shackleton is,... |
 AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll: The Ultimate Story of the World's Greatest Rock-and-Roll BandBest Price: $15.68 First off, AC/DC are my favorite band and have been for years. It took me some time to get... |  The Land of OsirisBest Price: $12.86 Stephen Mehler's research, spanning over 30+ years, indicate that whenever there is a so-called... |  Woven into the Earth: Textiles from Norse GreenlandBest Price: $45.31 This hard-cover book, translated from Danish, is a fascinating look at an obscure treasure.... |  The Lost Continent of MuBest Price: $11.53 Though a book written some years ago, it is a very good investigation around the world of the... |  A Fortunate LifeThe story of Albert Facey's life is one of the most inspiring, poignant biographies I have ever... |
 A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of AustraliaBest Price: $7.74 Robert Hughes,'Fatal Shore' redressed? Not quite. Hughes's well-honed invective sits uneasily... |  This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in GreenlandBest Price: $8.82 I have enjoyed Ehrlich's writing style, very poetic descriptions about the ice and the people.... |  The Tiwi of North Australia (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)Best Price: $18.88 |  Living Spirits With Fixed Abodes: The Masterpieces Exhibition of the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art GalleryBest Price: $80.00 |  It's a Jungle Up There: More Tales from the TreetopsBest Price: $13.75 Do you want you and your family to be inspired by the wonders science reveals to the world? ... |
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