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Official Motor Road Guide
Australia. NRMA. 4th Edition Hardcover
Good condition for its age material on spine has been attacked by insects all external corners are worn and rounded no date in book but I believe it to be about 1929 edition. maps drawn by H.E.C. Robinson LTD complied for NSW government tourist bureau and national roads and motorist association of NSW. A very descriptive book describing the dip or holes or views etc along each strip of road. I like the note to motorists traveling into NSW or Victoria to report to a police station to gain a permit to drive in the other state without charge. P9. Some great adverts throughout. 348 pages 215mm x 135mm.
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69.23 AUD
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Europeans in Australia ATKINSON, ALAN
Australia Oxford University Press Australia 1998 0195507088 / 9780195507089 Soft Cover
30pl 3 maps, bibliog In the first volume of his history of Australia, Alan Atkinson covers the first impact of European power on Australia. He argues that the Europeans were not simply conquerors, that their own cultures were infinitely complex, thickly-woven with ideas about spirituality, authority, self and land, all of which influenced the development of Australia.
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26.11 AUD
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Europeans in Australia ATKINSON, ALAN
Australia Oxford University Press Australia 1997 019553641X / 9780195536416 Hardback
30 illustrations, bibliog Among the ancient stories told by people of the Australian north coast is one of the Shark that left its ocean home to make its mark on the shore. The ocean-borne power of the first Europeans in Australia, in and after 1788, had some of the savage mystery of the Ancestral Shark. In this major new multi-volume history of Australia, the award-winning historian Alan Atkinson explores the imagery and technique of European power as it made its first impact on Australia. He urges that the Europeans were not simply conquerors motivated by brutal or short term colonizing imperatives. Their own culture was ancient and infinitely complex, thickly woven with ideas about spirituality, authority, self and land, all of which influenced the development of Australia. Among the European's art and weapons none was more remarkable than writing: pens, paper, printing presses and books. The Shark which came ashore in 1788 enforced its will mainly through the written word. And yet poorer Europeans, like the Aborigines, were still a people largely unfamiliar with literacy in their daily lives. Theirs was an oral world - a world of speaking and listening. The possession of land, the conflict with the Abor
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Hell West And Crooked COLE, TOM
Australia, 03 May 1995 HarperCollins Publishers PTY 1998 0207189846 / 9780207189845 Soft cover
Good , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In this remarkable autobiographical account Tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama's he recounts his adventures as a drover and stationhand in the toughest country in Australia and later on as a buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in the Northern Territory before the war.
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19.73 AUD
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Sydney Revels CORBYN, CHARLES ADAM
Sydney Ure Smith 1970 0725400005 / 9780725400002 Hardback
both book & dust jacket are in very good condition d/jacket has some stains on front cover will probably clean of okay but you can have cheap
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9.59 AUD
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Darwin 1942 HALL, TIMOTHY
Methuen 1980 0454003293 / 9780454003291 Soft cover
good , 12mo - 6¾" - 7¾" Tall pos, to ffep has been whited out. Includes Black and white pictures in book
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67.87 AUD
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Cooper's Creek MOOREHEAD, ALAN
United Kingdom Orion Publishing Co 2001 1842124064 / 9781842124062 Soft Cover
Good Condition, 28 B/W Photo Illu(s),15 Line Drawing(s),1 Map(s) The first fully documented story of the strange drama - familiar to every Australian child - that took place in the remote interior of Australia 150 years ago. More than any other incident in Australia's history the story of Burke, the dashing but inexperienced expedition leader and Wills, his heroic second-in-command, evokes the memory of the early settlers and the seemingly insurmountable odds they sought to overcome. From the days the expedition set off from the rich, gold-rush town of Melbourne through the triumphant crossing of the continent to the heartbreaking return to base camp at Cooper's Creek, this is an epic adventure in the grand manner told by a master.
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Our Yesterdays PEARL, IRMA. & CYRIL.
Sydney. Angus & Robertson. 1954 First Edition Hardcover
Good , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall corners are bumped + crack to top of spine + pos on ffep is whited out + weight 883 grams postage EXTRA ask for quote +
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12.53 AUD
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Twentieth Century Sydney ROE, JILL
Australia Hale & Iremonger,Pty.Ltd 1980 0908094620 / 9780908094622 Soft Cover
Very good condition Minor foxing to endpapers pos on front end paper This book has two sections. Spaces & Structures has 7 essays on the city's housing, suburbanisation, department stores and parks. People & Politics has 8 essays on the city's beautification, representations in literature, shop assisatnts, anti-eviction campaign (1931) and resident action groups.
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18.79 AUD
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