Australia & Oceania Books


Pitcairn: children of mutiny Having been interested in the Bounty Saga as a child and into my 20's, reading this book when it...	Fury Beach Best Price: $0.01 John Ross, who had earlier failed to find the Northwest passage and had created a mirage of...	Two-thirds of a coconut tree	The Lapita Peoples: Ancestors of the Oceanic World (The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific) Best Price: $29.24 I found this book to be of great interest although it was a bit more scholarly than I expected. ...	John Monash: A Biography A major Australian university and a great Victorian freeway are named after Sir John Monash, but...



The Persians (Peoples of Asia) Best Price: $29.55 The Persians is a succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in...	A New City (Land Boom Melbourne in the Photographs of Charles Bristow Walker) Best Price: $24.94 In the summer of 1888-89, professional photographer Charles Bristow Walker ventured outside his...	Na Kua'aina: Living Hawaiian Culture The word kua'aina translates literally as "back land" or "back country."...	The End of Empire: Dependencies Since 1948 Part 1: The West Indies, British Honduras, Hong Kong, Fiji, Cyprus, Gibraltar, and the Falklands Select Documents ... Volume VIII (Documents in Imperial History) Best Price: $88.50 The eighth volume in Frederick Madden's monumental documentary history of the British Empire,...	The Last Man Standing: Herb Ashby and the Battle of El Alamein Best Price: $22.37 The story of Herb Ashby, an Australian soldier wounded in the siege of Tobruk and decorated for...



On Patrol with the SAS: Sleeping with Your Ears Open Best Price: $12.20 As the author states in the beginning of this book, it is not a historical account or individual...	Manawa: Pacific Heartbeat Best Price: $21.55 "Works of art give joy because they are so well made." This is a paraphrase of a...	The Ship: Retracing Captain Cook's Endeavor Voyage Best Price: $16.54 The Ship brings to life Captain Cook's famous voyage of exploration to the South Pacific aboard...	The Painters of the Wagilag Sisters Story 1937-1997 Best Price: $43.44 The dramatic tale of Wititj, the Olive Python, and the two sisters of the Wagilag clan forms the...	The Travelers' World: Europe to the Pacific Best Price: $19.93 For anyone interested in the history of travel or of the early contacts between Europeans and...

The Dig Tree: A True Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier Best Price: $4.55 The late Sarah Murgatroyd has written a well researched and poignant account of this tragic...	Diamond Head: Hawaii's Icon Best Price: $24.95 Learn the mythical and geological beginnings of Hawaii?s most recognized landmark. Diamond Head...	The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman Best Price: $17.41 I can't not say enough about this book. It is well written, thoughtful and personal. A must read!	Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom (Asao Special Publications ; No. 1) Best Price: $13.95 Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's...	The School That Fell From The Sky Best Price: $17.99 This is the story of a Photo Reconnaissance pilot in WWII shot out of the sky over the rain...

Les Murray: A Life in Progress Best Price: $3.98 Peter Alexander has written a biography that does come close to doing justice to perhaps the...	Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and Prehistory Best Price: $20.68 This text aims to combine all the evidence for Hawaiian prehistory into a coherent pattern. It...	Not Strictly Kosher: Pioneer Jews in New Zealand (1831-1901) Best Price: $148.18 Covers Jewish history in New Zealand from 1831-1901- the Victorian Era. The only comprehensive...	A History of India (Blackwell History of the World) Best Price: $31.99 This history provides an original, succinct but sustained narrative of the development of Indian...	Vanished Islands And Hidden Continents Of The Pacific (Latitude 20 Books) Best Price: $37.62 Over the years, geologists have amassed data that point to the undeniable fact of islands having...

Fiji's Heritage: History of Fiji Best Price: $5.00 This book gave me insight into the history behind the animosity between native and Indo-Fijians....	South Pole: A Narrative History of the Exploration of Antarctica (NG Adventure Classics) Best Price: $5.98 The race to reach the south pole is one of the most extraordinary stories in human history. In...	Seek the Frozen Lands: Irish Polar Explorers 1740-1922 Best Price: $52.93 There has been an extraordinary amount of interest lately in the incredible stories of those...	Handbook of Japanese Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology) Best Price: $17.28 Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami--the eight...	Crossfire: An Australian Reconnaissance Unit in Vietnam Best Price: $32.32 Highly recommended, there is an excellent chance that this book is the one for which you have...

Captain Bligh and Mr.Christian: The Men and the Mutiny	Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam Best Price: $26.10 Well written readable history of the Chamorro people, the settlement, cultures and development...	Song for Satawal Best Price: $76.34	Taonga Maori: Treasures of the New Zealand Maori People Best Price: $32.24 This catalogue is a wonderful reminder of the treasures that were shown at the 1989 Taonga Maori...	30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (The Writer and the City) Best Price: $1.50 Congratulations, Mr Carey, on producing the only boring book on Sydney I have ever read. The...

Featherston chairs: [exhibition] National Gallery of Victoria, 30 March-7 August 1988	A Century of Aloha - The Creation of Modern Honolulu Best Price: $25.95	Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition Best Price: $5.61 I was very glad that I read this book, but also very glad that I was finished reading this book,...	Indians of the Arctic and Subarctic (First Americans Series) Best Price: $14.95 Part of an eight-volume series offering young people a view of the ancient tribes of North...	No Pleasure Cruise: The Story of the Royal Australian Navy Best Price: $23.77 This comprehensive history of the Royal Australian Navy covers the naval branch of the...

Flesh in Armour: A Novel (The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series) Best Price: $13.75 This title presents an Australian perspective on the World War I combat experience. Leonard Mann...	Decline and Fall of the Hapsburg Empire 1815-1918 Best Price: $25.00 I bought the second edition under the misleading impression that the contents will be updated,...	Te Mana Te Kawanatanga: The Politics of Maori Self-Determination Best Price: $45.00 This book concerns contemporary development in Maori as well as this nation's aspirations for...	The Royal Navy and Polar Exploration: From Franklin to Scott: Vol. 2 Best Price: $33.00 This narrative reflects on one of the most perilous quests in Polar exploration?the search for...	Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture Best Price: $13.11 I first read PACIFIC RISING in 1991, the year of publication and felt it was the absolute best...

The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891?1903 (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series) Best Price: $29.97 Originating in 1891 in the port city of Surabaya, the Komedie Stamboel, or Istanbul-style...	Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Oceania (Encyclopedia of World Cultures) Best Price: $176.00	To the Great Southern Sea This compelling story invites us to the mighty ocean seas and the faraway places that lie beyond...	Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music In Australia Best Price: $27.50 This is the first comprehensive book on contemporary Aboriginal music in Australia. The names of...	Colors of Australia (Colors of the World) Great book to share with children. It shows many diiferent aspects of Australia grouped by...

Battlefield Tourism: Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Britain, Australia and Canada, 1919-1939 (Legacy of the Great War) Best Price: $34.58 In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields,...	Sean & David's Long Drive Best Price: $1.95 This book is like no other. It's real. It doesn't try to be incredibly intellectual or to preach...	Caging the Rainbow: Places, Politics, and Aborigines in a North Australian Town Best Price: $10.99 Explores the lives of Aborigines in the small town of Katherine, Australia. Merlan combines...	Sydney Best Price: $15.00 I bought this book in Sydney and found it a wealth of information on Sydney's beginings. The...	New Zealand In Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series) Best Price: $26.60

Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942 (Instructions for Servicemen) Best Price: $2.25 Over a million Americans passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945, and the U.S. military...	A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Best Price: $49.95 Basics: 2003, 7th edition, softcover, 576 pages, 2,500 color illustrations of 783 species, range...	The Eskimos and Aleuts (Ancient Peoples and Places) This is a wonderful book in my view, I feel that the author did a very nice job. I thought it...	Asbestos House: The Secret History of James Hardie Industries Best Price: $24.80 Reconstructed from hundreds of hours of interviews and thousands of pages of documentation, this...

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