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 Maui Trails: Walks, Strolls and Treks on the Valley IsleBest Price: $4.93 This hiking guidebook was useful on a recent family trip to Maui. Chapters are organized by main... |  The Use and Abuse of Australian HistoryBest Price: $24.95 Graeme Davison draws upon his experience and expertise as an historian and commentator on... |  The Pomp and Politics of Patriotism: Imperial Celebrations in Habsburg Austria, 1848-1916 (Central European Studies)Best Price: $29.95 The world of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the long dead country of the Emperor Franz Joseph I... |  Vietnam ANZACs (Elite, 103)Best Price: $4.95 The ANZAC contribution to the Vietnam War was a relatively new topic to me. I'd been aware that... |  Rupert Murdoch: Creator of a Worldwide Media EmpireBest Price: $34.61 Very interesting read. This biography goes into a lot of detail about Murdoch's first few... |
 The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic ExpeditionBest Price: $6.00 I've read several books on this subject. This one doesn't add quite enough. What's important... |  Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration (Adrenaline)Best Price: $0.97 My husband is reading the book first. He has informed me, an avid dog lover, that he is 12 pages... |  The Last NavigatorBest Price: $34.99 I read Steve Thomas' book in the evenings while I was staying at Trader's Ridge Resort on Yap.... |  Behind Enemy Lines: An Australian Sas Soldier in VietnamBest Price: $14.83 |  Plants in Hawaiian Culture (Kolowalu Books)Best Price: $29.95 |
 Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942 (Instructions for Servicemen)Best Price: $5.32 It is a warm and friendly guide to Australia and the Australians at a critical period in our... |  Historic Waianae |  The Hawaiian CalabashBest Price: $50.00 Hawaiians created the most beautiful bowls in Polynesia. Early in their history, they began... |  Melodies of Mourning: Music & Emotion in Northern Australia (World Anthropology)Best Price: $29.95 |  Dancing With Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First ContactBest Price: $3.00 This is a thoughtful, insightful look at the initial contacts between Australia's indigenous... |
 Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian TigerBest Price: $4.95 This book is a wonderful celebration of wildlife--what's lost and what still survives--in a... |  KauaiBest Price: $29.95 The oldest of the main Hawaiian islands, Kauai glimmers, like a green jewel in the middle of the... |  The Battle for Wau: New Guinea's Frontline 1942-1943 (Australian Army History Series)Best Price: $62.39 The Battle for Wau brings together for the first time the full story of the early World War II... |  Trackers: The Untold Story of the Australian Dogs of WarBest Price: $7.74 What a fantastic book! I had no idea dogs played a role like this in the war. Whether your... |  Daily Life of the Vikings (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)Best Price: $55.00 While I enjoyed reading this book for my research, I was disgusted by the author's constant... |
 Wise Words of the Yup'ik People: We Talk to You because We Love YouBest Price: $16.11 The Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska were some of the last Arctic peoples to come into... |  Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson CrusoeBest Price: $4.00 I liked this book. It is well researched about the background of Alexander Selkirk which is... |  On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European ContactBest Price: $23.67 The pacific islands and people who inhabit them have long been viewed as seperate, isolated and... |  Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western SpectacleBest Price: $5.97 P. T. Barnum, owner of the circus advertised for 'all the uncivilized races in existence' in... |  Nicky Barr, an Australian Air Ace: A Story of Courage and AdventureBest Price: $12.58 Like the previous reviewer, I could hardly put this book down. It is an amazing story told in... |
 An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of AnthropologyBest Price: $5.00 An Anthropology of the Subject rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the... |  Ta Moko: The Art of Maori TattooBest Price: $36.58 The book by Michael King, Revised Edition of a photography and social history, which submission... |  The Politics of Official ApologiesBest Price: $15.99 This book examines the political uses of official apologies in the United States, Australia,... |  How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For ExampleBest Price: $20.24 This book is not everyone's cup of tea, but it is a serious and important work enlivened with a... |  Travelers' Tales Hawai'i: True Stories (Travelers' Tales Guides)Best Price: $2.20 When I have been to Hawai'i, I've found it's good to go in the off- season (Feb.-thru-May), go... |
 Gallipoli: The Turkish StoryBest Price: $12.51 Brilliant layout , not only explains the sides at war but also the plans before and its effect... |  Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer (Modern Library Exploration)Best Price: $4.99 Charles Hall is the most extravagant figure in arctic exploration. His life is a poem. His... |  Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll (World War II)Best Price: $18.48 Island Victory: The Battle Of Kwajalein Atoll by Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall (1900-1977)... |  A History of Australian Baseball: Time and Game (Bison Original)Best Price: $19.40 This first attempt at an academic history of Australian baseball provides a very mixed bag.... |  Pol PotBest Price: $18.05 I have read a little on this subject but from what I see it is about the best now available.... |
 True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the PoleBest Price: $6.59 There were no winners in this race, as expertly laid out by author Bruce Henderson. While the... |  By Airship to the North Pole: An Archaeology of Human ExplorationBest Price: $13.00 I have always been interested in polar exploration. I enjoyed "Andree's Story" and... |  Antarctica: Exploring the Extreme: 400 Years of AdventureBest Price: $18.89 Landis does a wonderful job of providing a grand historical context for the impact of Antarctica... |  Tall Man: The Death of DoomadgeeBest Price: $16.32 |  Driving Tours Australia |
 Ruling Chiefs of HawaiiBest Price: $29.95 |  Honolulu Then and Now (Then & Now Thunder Bay)Best Price: $10.11 Named “the sheltering place” by native Hawaiians, Honolulu is situated on a... |  Coconut Chaos: Pitcairn, Mutiny and a Seduction at SeaBest Price: $14.66 |  TracksThis is one of my favorite books! Great story, very inspiring, writes beautifully. very... |  A Fortunate LifeThe story of Albert Facey's life is one of the most inspiring, poignant biographies I have ever... |
 European Vision and the South Pacific, Second EditionWith this book, art historian Bernard Smith established the model for all future considerations... |  Atlas of Pacific Salmon: The First Map-Based Status Assessment of Salmon in the North PacificBest Price: $27.50 This book is beautifully illustrated with photographs, illustrations, and the most detailed... |  The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, ca. A.D. 1000-1500Best Price: $29.92 This is a very well-written intellectual piece tracing Greenland colonies from establishment, to... |  Arts of the Pacific IslandsBest Price: $7.58 |  On Fiji Islands (Travel Library)This was a fun book to read while traveling in Fiji. It provides a great perspective of the... |
 A Day in the Life of Australia: Photographed by 100 of the World's Leading Photojournalists |  North Pole: A Narrative History (NG Adventure Classics)Best Price: $1.49 "A few toes aren't much to give to achieve the Pole," observed Robert Peary, but as... |  Dark VictoryBest Price: $12.00 I read this book a year ago and found it such a compelling but chilling read. If it were not so... |  A Crazy Occupation: Eyewitness to the IntifadaBest Price: $10.72 This is an amazing read. Jamie Tarabay brings home what it's like to live in a war zone in a way... |  The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and AustraliaBest Price: $159.00 This is the only comprehensive account of all eight species in the genus Adansonia . It... |
 Oceanic ArtBest Price: $206.08 The book gives an excellent overview of the art in the Oceanic region with special emphasis on... |  HeroesBest Price: $18.00 Further down, someone - presumably dissatisfied by the fact that John Pilger doesn't try to... |  Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890 (Pacific Islands Monograph Series)Best Price: $24.00 | ||
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