Search Results for ‘Australasia’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 20 matches found
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| Author: | Adam Jacot De Boinod |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Catalogue number: | 150604 |
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Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means "to take off your clothes in order to dance"? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or the Dutch word for skimming...
| Author: | Joe Bennett |
| Publisher: | Scribner |
| Catalogue number: | 127670 |
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In A Land of Two Halves, Joe Bennett came to ask himself what on earth he was doing in New Zealand after spending ten years there. Other than his dogs, what was it about these two small islands on the...
| Author: | Max Anderson |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 135920 |
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Digger is the story of a foreigner arriving unannounced and ill-equipped in a mining town that boomed and died before the Great War began, a town whose sole heirs are eight buildings, 13 people and...
| Author: | Bill Bryson |
| Publisher: | Black Swan |
| Catalogue number: | 99737 |
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Bill Bryson journeys Down Under to travel the world’s largest island, the only island that is also a continent, and the only continent that is also a country. It’s the only continent...
Kiwi Tracks - A Tramper in New Zealand
| Author: | Andrew Stevenson |
| Publisher: | Lonely Planet |
| Catalogue number: | 137244 |
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Many of us dream of escaping from everyday life, tossing a few possessions in a backpack and travelling light in far-off lands. As "Kiwi Tracks.." stands, Andrew Stevenson did more than dream: he packed...
Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World
| Author: | Anne Mustoe |
| Publisher: | Virgin Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 86475 |
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Lone Traveller is based on Anne Mustoe's second ride round the world. Taking historical routes as her inspiration again, she followed the Roman roads from Rome to Lisbon, travelled across South America...
| Author: | Sarah Murgatroyd |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Catalogue number: | 110856 |
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This is the story of the ill-fated expedition led by Robert Burke, that left Melbourne on August 20th 1860 to explore the still unknown Outback. The story is well-researched and vividly narrated by...
| Author: | Rob Mundle |
| Publisher: | Adlard Coles Nautical |
| Catalogue number: | 119545 |
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The Sydney to Hobart yacht race is one of the world's major sporting events. In 1998, it became one of the world's major sporting disasters. This is a vivid account of the tragedy as it gradually unfolded...
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Series: | Stanfords Travel Classics |
| Publisher: | JB Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 171883 |
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s “The Malay Archipelago” is a work of astounding breadth and originality that chronicles the British naturalist’s scientific exploration of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and...
| Author: | Michelle de Kretser |
| Publisher: | Chatto & Windus |
| Catalogue number: | 170268 |
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
The Lost Dog is the latest novel from one of Australia’s most promising young talents, Michelle de Kretser. Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote cottage in the...
Traveller's History of Australia
| Publisher: | Windrush Press |
| Catalogue number: | 147730 |
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About this series
Concise and accessible historical guides to popular tourist destinations. This series provides a good introductory overview for travellers who want to know more about a destination...
| Author: | John Pilger |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 17066 |
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Australia often gets a bad press over here: Crocodile Dundee, Neighbours, etc. This book is about a different Australia. John Pilger shocks when he writes about issues of oppression, race and class...
| Author: | Bruce Chatwin |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 75202 |
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The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, ancient tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed...
Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia (1942)
| Series: | Instructions for Servicemen (Historical Reproductions) |
| Publisher: | Bodleian Library |
| Catalogue number: | 147711 |
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This little book is marvellous reproduction of the original wartime guide, straight from the depths of the world-renowned Bodleian library.
Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia...
| Author: | Lloyd Jones |
| Publisher: | John Murray |
| Catalogue number: | 163420 |
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Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize
Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip is an unforgettable tale of survival by story; a superb piece of writing that will both captivate and inspire.
Bougainville. 1991. A...
| Author: | Robert Hughes |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 111302 |
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An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of England into a horrific penal system in Australia. Acclaimed as a landmark text that has given its true history back...
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Catalogue number: | 91772 |
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Granta has dedicated its Summer 2000 issue of the Magazine of New Writing to Australia. The natural beauties of Australia have made it a favourite tourist destination and the millennium Olympic Games...
| Author: | Sean Condon |
| Publisher: | Lonely Planet |
| Catalogue number: | 53695 |
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“Sean & David’s Long Drive” mixes sharp insights with deadpan humour and outright lies, as too city slackers discover their country.
Sean Condon is young, urban and a connoisseur of hair wax. He can...
| Author: | John Harris |
| Publisher: | Summersdale Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 100343 |
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in John Harris' "The Backpacker", John's holiday in India begins badly. His girlfriend returns home after falling ill and he finds himself at the end of a knife in a train station latrine.
But then...
| Author: | Robyn Davidson |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 68492 |
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The superb story of the author's 17,000-mile journey across the Outback with four camels and a dog.
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