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1	Road from Coorain more books like this by Jill Ker Conway add to wishlist A memoir of Jill Ker Conway's childhood in Australia and her education in the US, where she became the first woman president of Smith College. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia more books like this by Thomas Keneally add to wishlist Keneally offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard, and administrators arrived in New South Wales. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.29! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Fatal Shore more books like this by Robert Hughes add to wishlist This nationwide bestselling account of the founding of Australia is "a brilliant and enduring achievement . . . history of the highest order combining thorough research with vivid narrative and thoughtful assessment".--Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Two 16-page black-and-white photo inserts. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.65! \| first editions \| SVS
4	True North: A Memoir more books like this by Jill Ker Conway add to wishlist The author continues the memoir that began in "The Road from Coorain," with her arrival in the United States from Australia in 1960 until her acceptance of the presidency of Smith College in 1975. She recounts her immersion in a world of intellectual women, her marriage to her Harvard House master, John Conway, whom she discovers is manic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story more books like this by Christina Thompson add to wishlist An extraordinary love story between a Maori man and an American woman, that inspires a graceful, revelatory search for understanding about the centuries-old collision of two wildly different cultures. "Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All" is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told ... see all copies from $3.20! new only from $8.85! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee more books like this by Chloe Hooper add to wishlist Hooper's brilliant and searing account of the death of Cameron Doomadgee is written with the pace of a thriller. "Tall Man" tells the story of what happened to one man in an Aboriginal community and provides insight into a world few have ever seen. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Battle for the Falklands more books like this by Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins add to wishlist A chronicle of the call to arms and an informed analysis of the Falklands War. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	My Place more books like this by Sally Morgan add to wishlist In 1982 Sally Morgan travelled to her grandmother's birthplace, Corunna Downs Station in Western Australia. She wants to trace the experiences of her childhood andolescence in Perth in the 1950's. Through memories and images, hints and echoes begin to emerge and another story unfolds - the mystery of her aboriginal identity. Gradually her whole ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
9	Elota's Story: The Life & Times of a Solomon Islands Big Man more books like this by Roger M Keesing, 'Elota add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $87.71!
10	One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander more books like this by Sandy Woodward add to wishlist The bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the Falklands War, written by the commander of the British Task Force. On 5 April 1982, three days after the invasion of the Falkland Islands, British armed forces were ordered to sail 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic unaware of what lay ahead of them or whether they would be committed ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $14.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines more books like this by Julia Blackburn add to wishlist A creative and experimental biography in which Julia Blackburn tells the fascinating story of Daisy Bates, an Irishwoman who lived among the Aborigines in the Australian outback. Told in Bates's voice, this 'biography' challenges the conventional form. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	A Concise History of Australia more books like this by Stuart Macintyre add to wishlist Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. ... see all copies from $3.77! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia more books like this by Mark Borthwick add to wishlist The Asia-Pacific region now looks set to become a major economic and political global force. Focusing on both southeast and northeast Asia, this highly illustrated volume examines the broad, cross-cutting themes of regional history, emphasizing the interactions between cultures and nations. Spanning the whole history of the Pacific Asia, from ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	MR Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theater on H. M. Armed Vessel Bounty more books like this by Greg Dening add to wishlist William Bligh was one of the least physically violent disciplinarians in the British Navy, why, then, did he have a mutiny? Mr Bligh's Bad Language is a study of the mutiny on the Bounty, and its role in society and culture. Greg Dening draws on a wide range of influences, including modern cinematic portrayals. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	A Concise History of New Zealand more books like this by Philippa Mein Smith add to wishlist New Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. In this new account of New Zealand's history, Philippa Mein Smith considers this rugged and dynamic land from its break from Gondwana 80 million years ago to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Mein Smith highlights the effects of the country's ... see all copies from $4.04! new only from $4.49! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Searching for the Secret River more books like this by Kate Grenville add to wishlist Kate Grenville's "The Secret River" was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, the story of William Thornhill and his journey from London to the other side of the world has moved and exhilarated hundreds of thousands of readers. "Searching for the Secret River" tells the ... see all copies from $7.79! new only from $10.52!
17 view cover	The Penguin History of New Zealand more books like this by Michael King add to wishlist New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce a full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else ... see all copies from $22.00! new only from $29.44!
18 view cover	Castaway more books like this by Lucy Irvine add to wishlist This is an account of how the author answered an advertisement for a "wife" to spend a year on a tropical island with a writer, and subsequently found herself alone on a remote desert island with a "husband" she hardly knew. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
19	Myths of Oz: Reading Australian Popular Culture more books like this by John Fiske add to wishlist see all copies from $7.75! new only from $54.95!
20 view cover	The Dig Tree: A True Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier more books like this by Sarah P Murgatroyd add to wishlist Journalist and adventure traveler Murgatroyd relives the harrowing true story of the Burke and Wills expedition team, who took on the Australian wilds 150 years ago--and lost. 53 photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.75! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Dancing with Strangers more books like this by Inga Clendinnen add to wishlist see all copies from $2.70! new only from $8.99! \| first editions
22 view cover	Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History more books like this by Jennifer Isaacs add to wishlist Australian Dreaming is the first Aboriginal history of the Australian continent and its people, as told by Aboriginal storytellers. It recounts epic travels of the Great Spirit Ancestors and tells how they created the animals and plants and gave birth to the earliest people of this land. see all copies from $7.24! new only from $33.36! \| first editions
23 view cover	Why Die? the Extraordinary Percy Cerutty more books like this by Graem Sims add to wishlist A biography of Australia's most enigmatic and controversial coach, best remembered as coach to John Landy in his quest to break the four-minute mile, and Herb Elliot, while training for the 1960 Olympics. see all copies from $56.60!
24	Australia and New Zealand more books like this by Anthony Trollope add to wishlist see all copies from $15.35! new only from $15.35! \| first editions
25	Oceans of Consolation more books like this by David Fitzpatrick add to wishlist "This volume provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives and attitudes of Irish migrants to the Seven Colonies of Australasia in the 19th century. Fitzpatrick presents a richly textured and nuanced reading of 111 letters between emigrants and 'the old country,' telling us much not only about the aspirations of emigrants, their successes and ... see all copies from $6.22! new only from $6.22! \| first editions

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