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Paperback. Condición: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condición: Good+. Paperback. Binding sound, text unmarked (but a bit age darkened), moderate cover shelfwear with some slight stress marks. Serviceable condition. Anthology of writings by explorers of Australia. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may be extra. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint. Minor shelf wear, otherwise fine.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. First Edition. Trade paperback, new in wraps. First edition, 1st printing.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. First published by Text Publishing 2017. Trade paperback. Unmarked, square, and tight - as New.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. Hardcover in jacket. Book is sound and clean with mild shelfwear, jacket has a few small edge tears. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may be extra. Book.

Mass-market paperback. Condición: Fine. B-format paperback. 232 p. Audience: College/higher education; General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. SC 231.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. For many years it was assumed that poetry came from England. Research now clearly demonstrates, however, that a great many of the worlds most famous poets were actually Australians.Possibly the most important anthology ever published. The definitive collection featuring key works by such famous Australian poets as Gavin Milton, Arnold Wordsworth, Sylvia Blath, Very Manly Hopkins, R.A.C.V. Milne and Dylan Thompson. In the author's own words: possibly the most important anthology ever published. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Hows your ebb tide?Do you sign on the dotted lion?Is your tea nature Orpheus Rocker?Who is Charlie Charm Puck in Waltzing Matilda?There was never any book about Australian speech like Strine or about posh British speech like Fraffly Well Spoken.Here, collected in one volume, are Afferbeck Lauders groundbreaking studies of Australian speech, Let Stalk Strine and Nose Tone Unturned. Also included are Fraffly Well Spoken and Fraffly Suite, Lauders guides to the strangled dialect of the English upper class.Reproduced with Al Teregos original illustrations, these classic books are full of mare chick momence. They are essential reading for air fridge Strines and new Strines alikeindeed, for anyone interested in our wire flife. Tiger look and start torgon Strine! Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. I want to die. I do not want to be mad.It is like my body is a house, and some visitor has come, and attacked the person who lived there.After an Australian patrol officer commits suicide on a remote New Guinea island in 1959, five witnesses are called to a government inquiry. Each has a disturbing story to tell: strand by strand, the mystery of the officers past is unravelled. But what of other visitants, like the unidentified flying object and the cargo cult it has inspired on the island? Informed by Randolph Stows experiences, Visitants is an original, astonishing investigation of colonialism. An investigation into a Patrol Officer's suicide in New Guinea leads to revelations about his secret past. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Twenty years ago, when I first arrived on the plains, I kept my eyes open. I looked for anything in the landscape that seemed to hint at some elaborate meaning behind appearances.There is no book in Australian literature like The Plains. In the two decades since its first publication, this haunting novel has earned its status as a classic. A nameless young man arrives on the plains and begins to document the strange and rich culture of the plains families. As his story unfolds, the novel becomes, in the words of Murray Bail, a mirage of landscape, memory, love and literature itself. A young man arrives on the plains to document the strange, rich culture of the landowning families. This quest becomes his life. Teju Cole calls Murnane 'a genius on the level of Beckett.' Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Introduced by Germaine Greer'I have been reading your Getting of Wisdom with enormous admiration.Your little rag of a girl is a most adorable little beast.' H. G. Wells, letter to Henry Handel RichardsonOne of the most memorable characters in Australian fiction, Laura Rambotham, aged twelve, enters the portals of an exclusive girls' school eager to be accepted. But this precocious country girl is snubbed and ridiculed by her fellow students, who are richer, more attractive and more adept at dealing with life's hypocrisies.The Getting of Wisdom, a wicked and satirical novel on the pain and confusion of growing up, first appeared in 1910. A century later it has lost none of its bite. In her splendid introduction Germaine Greer describes this classic as 'Richardson's only great book precisely because the subject is, like the rest of us, ordinary, and therefore deeply important'. The classic Australian novel of school days, a compelling and frank account of a young girl's coming of age. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Illustrated by Bird on red branch cover art Ilustrador. reprint edition". VERY GOOD Condition clean, solild,bright ; black titles on orange & whote paper covers.back cover has 1x2" photo of author & biog. ; 345pg pages; Australian Poet & novelis.Unique author.hymn to youth; sexual freedom; moral independence;

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. text Classics. 336 pages.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has neglected his livestock for too long. In a burst of insurgent fervour they rise up and he is deposed, with the pigs taking charge of the newly named Animal Farm. Everything runs smoothly, productivity soars, and all animals are well-fed and happy.But the further away the memory of the revolution, the more distant seem its ideals-and when Boxer the workhorse is betrayed, the horrifying extent of the pigs' corruption is revealed.Orwell's 'fairy story', a scathing satire of Soviet communism, is as potent now as it was in 1945. Animal Farm is one of literature's most electrifying examinations of power and corruption. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. I love you moreThan God loves the world.Little published in her lifetime, Lesbia Harford died young in the late 1920s. Her short lyrical poemsabout social justice, revolution, free love, feminism and the experience of womendisplay a candour and dynamism unusual for her time and place. This essential new selection of her finest work, chosen and introduced by Gerald Murnane, reaffirms Harfords position as one of Australias pre-eminent modern poets. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Livy cant remember her first visit to her grandmothers house in Australia, but she does seem to recall a wrong chicken and bumping down the stairs.She definitely doesnt remember the strange little creature she finds in the wardrobe. His name is Bob and he doesnt know what hes doing there, but hes been waiting for Livy to come back for more than five years. Thats a very long time to sit in the dark.Clue by clue, Livy and Bob unravel the mystery of where Bob comes from and what Livy has forgotten in this magical story about friendship and loyalty and the power of imagination. A funny and moving story for young readers set in a small Australian town against the backdrop of bush life and the hardships of drought. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. As we got closer I could see behind the sandstone a curved concrete building: a purpose-built structure. But still no fence, no wire. Not a bar in sight. For this, Id been told that morning, I should be grateful. This was a lifelinea last chance. That is what the judge said.Daniel is a sixteen-year-old drug dealer and he is going to jail.Then hes not.A courtroom intervention. A long car ride to a deluxe outback facility. Other gifted delinquents.Where are they?Its not a jail.Its not a psych unit.Its not like any school hes ever seen.He is sure he and the others are part of an experiment. But he doesnt know whos running it or what they are trying to prove. And he has no idea what the next seven months are going to do to him. A literary, and terrifyingly credible, novel about our juvenile justice system written by a lawyer working in the field. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An uplifting novel for 11-13 year olds about oppression, privilege, girls and womens' status, education and diversity, and also a heartwarming story about a girl with a missionTwelve-year-old Amal loves learning and dreams of becoming a teacher.Then something unimaginable happens-after an accidental run-in with the son of her village's corrupt landlord, she is forced to work as his family's servant to pay off her own family's debt.At the opulent and corrupt Khan estate, Amal realises she will have to find a way to work with others in order to bring about change, and to achieve her dreams.Inspired by Malala Yousafzai, Amal Unbound is a heartwarming story for brave girls everywhere. A brilliant book about diversity, privilege, girls and womens' status, education, corruption and oppression, but also about a girl with a mission. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris, and tramping the streets and living in hostels in London.Down and Out in Paris and London is one of the great accounts of life in the underclass- of being hard-up and hungry, of sleeping in seedy hostels and working in squalid restaurants. George Orwell's first book published - when he was not yet thirty - is alive with the sights and smells of poverty. It is a revelatory memoir of surviving at the margins. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.