Roslyn ros (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 328 pages.Lightly foxing top edge. Plastic wrapper.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 328 pages.

Hardback. Ros Pesman, Oxford University Press Australia. Travel has always been central to the experience of living in Australia and to giving that life meaning. For Aboriginal Australians, identity was bound up in the travelling of the land. For non-Aboriginal Australians, the sense of being Australian has involved comparisons with other places - England, Europe, Asia or America. Australians, despite the high cost of travel and enormous distances, have become some of the world's most enthusiastic travellers, holding more passports proportionate to population than anywhere else. Given the importance of travel for Australians, it may seem surprising that this should be the first attempt comprehensively to anthologize Australian overseas travel writing. The three editors - all specialists in Australian travel writing - have assembled sixty extracts from the works of writers, soldiers, explorers, missionaries, journalists and public figures. In doing so they have selected extracts from autobiographies and histories, as well as formal travel writings. The work is arranged chronologically, in five different sections. Contributors include Alfred Deakin, Henry Lawson, Ethel Turner, Douglas Mawson, Martin Boyd, Frank Clune, Patrick White, Jill K. Hardback.…

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. Later Paperback Printing. Slim booklet, clean & unmarked, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page; Originally pub.as part of an earlier book callled The Banker of Cabbagetown, this is strictly on the conservation and history of the Don River itself; Illust.by b/w photos throughout and a couple of local songs also included; Also is a signed full page head drawing signed by the author, see photo. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condición: Almost as New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good to Very Good. 1st Edition. Looks unread to inside with no inscriptions. The dust jacket is as new. POSTAGE beyond Europe can be adjiusted down. Broadleaf Books is a second hand independent bookshop in Abergavenny, South Wales. Enquiries and visits are welcome. tv. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Hardback in jacket 1996. Clean & tight. Flat pages. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket is complete. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref h195. The Oxford Book of Australian Travel Writing. Edited by: Ros Pesman, David Walker and Richard White.…