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THE YELLOW JOSS (Revised Edition)
With authenticity that sometimes surprises the reader, Idriess introduces us to Aboriginals from Northern Australia, Papuan head- hunters, and Islanders around the Great Barrier Reef, all still in the colonial phase of European contact.
ISBN-13: 9781922384959 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Author: Idriess, Ion
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AUD $29.99
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Local release date: 01/12/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]

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The Man who Collected Women
A novel about eccentric 19th-century Englishman Alexander Hare: a trader and slave-owner in the East and a friend of Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, but Hare's chief claim to fame is as the creator of a harem of women from throughout Asia.
ISBN-13: 9781912049745 (Paperback)
Publisher: MONSOON BOOKS
Imprint: MONSOON BOOKS
Author: Barley, Nigel
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AUD $22.95
Stock: 9 in stock
Local release date: 15/10/2020
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Categories: True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]Historical fiction [FV]South East Asia [1FM]

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Strangers on the Praia:
A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao
ISBN-13: 9789887963899 (Paperback)
Publisher: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
Imprint: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
Author: Frernch, Paul
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AUD $17.99
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Local release date: 29/08/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]Humanities [H]History [HB]European history [HBJD]Military history [HBW]Society & social sciences [J]Society & culture: general [JF]Social issues & processes [JFF]Refugees & political asylum [JFFD]

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Spiritual Resistance
Ita Wegman, 1933-1935
From 1933 to 1935, Ita Wegman was confronted by both Nazi fascism and internal crises in the General Anthroposophical Society. During those years, she travelled to Palestine in the fall of 1934 following a grave illness that nearly ended with her death. Her correspondence during this period, as well as her notes on the trip, reveal the great ......
ISBN-13: 9781621480655 (Paperback)
Publisher: STEINER BOOKS INC
Imprint: STEINER BOOKS INC
Author: Selg, Peter; Barton, Matthew
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AUD $60.99
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Local release date: 17/09/2014
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Categories: True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]Theosophy & Anthroposophy [HRQC5]

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MEN OF THE JUNGLE
This books looks at Idriess and his Aboriginal prospecting friends, the Bairds, working their way through far north-east Queensland over 100 years ago, from the Daintree and the Bloomfield Rivers to Mount Molloy.
ISBN-13: 9781922473448 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Author: Idriess, Ion
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Local release date: 01/05/2021
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MAN TRACKS
With the Mounted Police in the Australian Wilds
MAN TRACKS tells of stirring episodes in the pursuit, of lawbreakers in the primitive lands. Every chapter is authentic. Patrols through the Kimberleys, the wild Fitzmaurice River country, the nor'-west of Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Central Australia; each incident recorded from the lips of the pursuers and pursued whether ......
ISBN-13: 9781922473356 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Author: Idriess, Ion
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 15 in stock
Local release date: 18/02/2021
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Madman's Island
In 1920, though, as the three ex-diggers talked across the bar at the West Coast, swapping stories of the War and goings-on in Cooktown and along the coast, the pioneer vision would have still been fresh and sustained by hope and dreams. All that was needed was a little luck – which might come from the Chinese gambling den across the way, or at ......
ISBN-13: 9781925706970 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Author: Idriess, Ion
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AUD $24.95
Stock: 23 in stock
Local release date: 06/02/2020
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LIGHTNING RIDGE
In the 22nd edition of this book, Ion Idriess tells of his beginnings, of his childhood in Lismore, Tamworth and Broken Hill, of his apprenticeship in bushcraft, and of the growing love for the Australian Outback which illumines all his work. He tells of the jobs he had, - as rouseabout, horse breaker, horse tailer, shearer.
ISBN-13: 9781922384966 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Author: Idriess, Ion
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AUD $29.99
Stock: 47 in stock
Local release date: 23/10/2020
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Categories: Biography & True Stories [B]Biography: general [BG]Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]True stories [BT]True stories: discovery / historical / scientific [BTH]Autobiography: historical, political & military [BGHA]

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Growing Up in the 60s
From life in small New South Wales country towns to the glitter of Sydney, this memoir explores life in a changing Australia, from ages 7 to 17. Especially written and recorded for ABC Radio, this book evokes an innocent Australia through a quietly comic delivery.
ISBN-13: 9780648739029 (Paperback)
Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
Author: Thompson, Tom
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AUD $19.99
Stock: 19 in stock
Local release date: 29/01/2020
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