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Manufacturer: Ken Duncan Panographs
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ken Duncan
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Publisher: Ken Duncan Panographs
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Dewey Decimal Number: 778
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Publication Date: 2007-03
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Reading Level: 200
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Price: $39.99
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Sale: $26.39
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Manufacturer: New Holland
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Philip Temple
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Publisher: New Holland
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Edition: First
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Dewey Decimal Number: 919
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Publication Date: 2009-03-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Illustrated with over 150 historical photographs, paintings and maps, "Presenting New Zealand" is a visually sumptuous and informative account of how the country has developed into the independent nation that the rest of the world recognises today. Starting with the huge rifts of prehistoric times that tore it apart from Gondwana, the book traces the arrival of the first Polynesian canoes, the exploration and settlement by Europeans and the modern-day social, economic and political achievements of this remarkable country. In forgoing modern scenic illustration, and instead focusing the text and images exclusively on history, this fully revised edition is a major departure from the work as it appeared in its original edition, which was published in 2001 by New Holland under the title of "Presenting New Zealand: A Nation's Heritage".
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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $26.83
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Manufacturer: BBC Pubns
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Peter Crawford
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Publisher: BBC Pubns
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.96
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Publication Date: 1994-10
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Accompanying a BBC2 series, this book tells the story of the Polynesians, a tenacious, voyaging people who sailed across the Pacific Ocean and discovered the paradise islands of the South Seas. Using the power of the wind and navigating by the stars, they crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in search of new lands such as Tahiti, Samao and New Zealand. The book explores the colourful plant and animal life which, like the Polynesians themselves, settled every speck of land in this extraordinary island world. From coral atolls alive with sharks and reef fish, to lush rain forests teeming with exotic plants, birds and insects, the islands of Polynesia have an intriguing natural history.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $28.00
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Manufacturer: New Holland Publishers, Ltd.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Liam Davison
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Publisher: New Holland Publishers, Ltd.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 770
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Publication Date: 2000-04
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: More than 80 percent of Australia's population is clustered in and around cities on the coastal fringe, and yet the lives of Australians on the land still capture our collective imagination. For over 200 years the pioneering spirit of Australia's ruralpeople has enabled them to meet the challenges presented by a difficult climate in a fragile land. Today, that same spirit of resourcefulness helps farmers embrace the changes required to compete successfully in a globalized world market. "The Spirit of Rural Australia" acknowledges the foundations of the past and celebrates a future built upon a resiliant country spirit. Evocative images and text combine to create a picture of rural life that will appeal to readers everywhere, but in particular, those Australians who have lived through the changes being explored. The book begins with an introductory essay surveying the rapid transformation of rural Australia from the early days of European settlement to the prs! ent. Five thematic sections follow, looking at critical elements of country life - Land, Work, Town, Communication and Home. Each section gives the reader an overview of how rural people across Australia come together to ceate a special sense of community and belonging. Character sketches interspersed throughout the book are drawn from particular images of people, place and landscape. Elements of story, anecdote, memoir and biography reanimate the lives of country people from a passing era, investing contempoarary rural Australia with a healthy sense of place. There is a strong focus on work practices, lifestyles, and the daily routines of country people engaged in the activities that have halped shape the identity of rural communities over the last hundred years or so.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $29.97
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michael W. Young
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 779.999541
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Publication Date: 1998-02-15
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Reading Level: 316
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Description: Kiriwina, the largest of the Trobriand Islands in eastern Papua New Guinea, is anthropology's "sacred place." It was here that Bronislaw Malinowski conducted the path-breaking fieldwork that enabled him to revolutionize British social anthropology. And it was here that he developed one of anthropology's most important tools: photography.
Malinowski's Kiriwina presents nearly two hundred of Malinowski's previously unpublished photographs, taken between 1915 and 1918, of the Trobriand Islanders. The images are more than embellishments of his ethnography; they are a recreation in striking detail of a distant world. Michael Young, an anthropologist and Malinowski's authorized biographer, has selected the photographs based on one of Malinowski's unpublished studies of the region, and the plan of that abandoned project has helped structure this book.
Divided into fourteen sections, Malinowski's Kiriwina is a series of linked photo-essays based on Trobriand institutions and cultural themes as described by Malinowski. The introductory essay by Young appraises the founding anthropologist's photographic oeuvre, explains the historical circumstances and technical aspects of the images, and puts them in their colonial context. Young illuminates the photographs with quotations from Malinowski's diaries, letters, and field notes, thereby giving a biographical dimension to the collection. Commentaries on the images by contemporary Trobrianders add a further layer of interpretation. The result is a stunning record not only of a fascinating place, but of the mutual relationship between ethnography and the visual.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $18.96
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Manufacturer: White Star
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: White Star
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Dewey Decimal Number: 919.400222
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Publication Date: 2007-03-20
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Reading Level: 640
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Description: Australia is the world's smallest continent but the world's largest island, unsurpassed in its diversity of cultures and natural wonders. Aerial photographer Klaus D. Francke invites readers to explore this vast and beautiful land through this superb collection of bird's-eye photographs that spotlight Australia's fascinating contrasts. He spent close to 200 flying hours-and countless more waiting for the wind to calm and the sun to strike the right angle-to capture the images in this book. The result is a spectacular portfolio of pictures that give us a rare glimpse of Australia's complex beauty. This book transports readers to the remote reaches of this country: from the boundless expanses of the Outback to the incomparable sapphire blue of the Great Barrier Reef. Readers experience the heat of scorching deserts dominated by rocks of bizarre shapes and otherworldy colors, dive into bountiful waterfalls and salt lakes, and encounter exotic animals and futuristic cities. They also evoke the idiosyncratic personality of each of the country's major cities, including Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide, which, when viewed from above, are all the more compelling.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $70.00
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Manufacturer: Collins Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Collins Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 994.0630222
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Publication Date: 1988-10
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $41.30
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Manufacturer: Ken Duncan Panographs
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ken Duncan
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Publisher: Ken Duncan Panographs
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Dewey Decimal Number: 919
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Publication Date: 1999-02
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Ken Duncan's vision of Australia invites you to feel the many moods and manifestations of this country's spectacular landscapes. Drawing on over 20 years of experience shooting this vast country, ken Duncan uses all his skill to show the beauty of creation so that it first dazzles the eye, then goes deeper to touch the spirit.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $11.25
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Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tim Winton
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Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 994.040222
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Publication Date: 1998-10
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Immense, haunting, unique in geology and life forms, the outback looms to the north and west of Australia's urbanized southeast coast. For two years, photojournalist Bill Bachman recorded both this forbidding landscape and the people who dwell--and even thrive--in it, compiling the images for his remarkable book, Australian Colors. Deftly avoiding all the usual clichés--there is not a single kangaroo shot--Australian Colors mixes stunning vistas of twisted cliffs and sweeping plains with more intimate portraits of outback culture. Here are the jackaroos and jillaroos (cowboys and cowgirls) who work the vast outback ranches, the sunken-jawed fishers of isolated creeks and shoals, the well-lubricated celebrants at a bush horse race. Bachman's striking photographs are well matched by his lengthy, colorful captions, which go far beyond typical coffee-table book text. In addition, each of the book's winningly titled 19 sections ("Trees as Men Walking," "Dogs? They Run the Country") begins with a short essay by award-winning Australian novelist Tim Winton, whose evocative, often humorous prose perfectly complements Bachman's images. There is one question that has to be asked, however: why are Australia's aborigines--the outback's original inhabitants--so underrepresented in Australian Colors? By revealing so little of them, perhaps Bachman reveals more of outback culture than he intends. --Rebecca Gleason
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $7.95
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Manufacturer: Te Neues Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ken Eastwood
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Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 779.3694
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Publication Date: 2005-07
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Reading Level: 119
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Description: In this extraordinary collection of colour images, noted landscape and wildlife photographer Jeff Drewitz presents Australias natural beauty in all its stunning diversity. Whether photographs of dry outback or breathtaking coastline, the lush woods of Tasmania or the rainforests and wildlife of the tropical north, these pictures reveal a landscape that offers beauty and diversity in spades. The cities scattered along Australias coasts are also covered. Here is a portrait of a vast land of extremes that will be the perfect keepsake for any traveller.
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