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Wise Women of the Dreamtime: Aboriginal Tales of the Ancestral Powers
K. Langloh Parker
Park Street Press
Park Street Press
Extending deep into the caverns of humanity's oldest memories, beyond 60,000 years of history and into the Dreamtime, this collection of Australian Aboriginal myths has been passed down through the generations by tribal storytellers. The myths were...
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Birds of Australia: Seventh Edition (Princeton Field Guides)
Ken Simpson, Nicolas Day
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
This is the completely revised seventh edition of Australia's best field guide, with more than 500,000 copies sold over its lifetime. In 132 color plates of remarkable beauty and precision, Nicolas Day has captured the details of all of Australia's...
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Then There Were None
Martha H. Noyes
Bess Press
Bess Press
Then There Were None, by award-winning Honolulu writer and artist Martha H. Noyes, is a personal and emotional account, in words and pictures, of the effect of Western contact on the Hawaiian population. Drawing from a variety of sources, Noyes...
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How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example
Marshall Sahlins
University Of Chicago Press
University Of Chicago Press
When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such...
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Dancing With Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
Inga Clendinnen
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British...
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
David Howarth
The Lyons Press
The Lyons Press
If this story of espionage and survival were a novel, readers might dismiss the Shackleton-like exploits of its hero as too fantastic to be taken seriously. But respected historian David Howarth confirmed the details of Jan Baalsrud's riveting...
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