Category: South Pacific

Return to Gan: An Illustrated Diary, 1960 & 1998.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: West Sussex, England: Woodfield Publishing, (2001). First Edition.

Seller ID: qms55

Octavo, softbound (stiff, full-color photo illus. white wrappers), 200 pp. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges. An illustrated diary describing life at the RAF Airbase on the island of Gan, Adoo Atoll, Maldives in 1960 and a return visit in 1998.
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Lillian Dickson's South Seas Story. Edited by Marilyn Dickson Tank.

By: Dickson, Lillian.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: N.l.: The Mustard Seed, (1986). First Edition.

Seller ID: 2675kms

Octavo, softbound, 266 pp. Map, color photos. Fine.
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Native Animals of Australia. Photographs by Harry Frauca. [Macmillan Pocket Guide].

By: Drury, Susan.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Australia: The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty Ltd., (1981).

Seller ID: 12463scs

Narrow octavo, grey cloth (hardcover), 120 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. Illustrated with numerous photos. From jacket: Australia has many distinctive forms of animal life; this book provides a brief informative look at the many species of Australia's Native Animals. Details of their habits and distribution are fully described in the text.
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The River Flows: A History of Mannum on the River Murray.

By: Linn, Rob.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Mid Murray Council, 1997. First Edition.

Seller ID: vas997

Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, photo. illus. endpapers, xiii, 252 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket: The River Murray is Australia's most significant waterway. The story of its environment, and the people who lived within its sphere, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of the settlement and development of Australia. Mannum, a town and district on the lower reaches of the Murray in South Australia, has had an important part in that larger story. There, from ÒThe Dreaming,Ó lived Aboriginal people of great antiquity, whose view...
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Non-White Immigration and the ÒWhite AustraliaÓ Policy.

By: London, H. I.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: New York University Press, 1970. First Edition.

Seller ID: ess4315

Signed and Inscribed by the Author: ÒTo my colleagues, co-conspirators and, most important, my buddies.Ó Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xv + 318 pp. Near-Fine, with light rubbing to edges; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with sunning to spine and light edgewear. From dust jacket: Reflecting an increasing concern with her image as an Asian state, Australia in 1966 proposed dramatic changes to liberalize her non-Caucasian immigration policy. This thoroughly researched book is the first historically and sociologically comprehensive overview of changing attitudes a...
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Slipping into Paradise: Why I Live in New Zealand.

By: Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Ballantine Books, [2004].

Seller ID: 28463a

1st edition. Octavo, blue boards, xxiv, 248 pp. Color photos, maps. Fine in dust jacket.
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Cannibal Caravan. With an Introduction by L. L. Stevenson.

By: Miller, Charles ÒCannibal.Ó

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York:l Lee Furman, Inc., 1939.

Seller ID: 51195bd

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), gilt spine label, map illus. endpapers, 318 pp. Near-Fine, with light rubbing; in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes chipping. From dust jacket: Charles Cannibal Miller as a child was what is generally termed a Òregular boy,Ó but instead of having merely a house or streets to tear around in, he had a whiole jungle for his stamping grounds. Charlie was born in far off Samarang, Java, but his father who was a captain in the Dutch East Indian Army was ordered to Dutch New Guinea to stamp out head hunting, and took his wife and child alon...
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Australian Plants, A Quarterly Periodical Devoted to the Australian Flora. Volume 5 (Issues No. 37-44). With, The Language of Botany, by C. Debenham.

By: Payne, W. H.; Managing Editor.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Society for Growing Australian Plants, 1968.

Seller ID: 14041kms

Octavo, green leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, 384 pp + 208 pp. Near-Fine, with slightly soiled covers. Illustrated with full-color photographs.
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Treasury of Maori Folkore.

By: Reed, A. W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, (1974).

Seller ID: qms615

Octavo, orange cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 491 pp. Fine (As New) in a Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine & lightly rubbed edges. From jacket: The majestic sweep of Maori tradition moves through the pages of this book; here, for the first time, is a full collection of the myths, legends, and religious beliefs of the New Zealand Maori. Maori folklore and legend has its own peculiar quality, being closely allied to nature in all its manifestations, and with a depth of thought and of religious feeling which is an important part of the Maori life. No other book has attempted to make ...
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Cape York to Coolangatta.

By: Sinclair, James.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Milton, Queensland: The Jacaranda Press, [1981].

Seller ID: 4801s

Oblong quarto, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, x, 150 pp. Very Good+, with former owner inscription and light edgewear, in a Fine dust jacket. ÔFrom the wilderness of Cape York Peninsula to the glittering playground of the Gold Coast, James Sinclair roamed in his campervan, through lush jungles and sugarlands, cattlelands, holiday resorts and coal-rich plainns, making frequent excursions by light aircraft and small boat, to capture with his camera Queenslands's islands, mountains, forests, streams, settlements, cities and people. Sinclair's outstanding photographs could stand alone, b...
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Australian Plants, A Quarterly Periodical Devoted to the Australian Flora. Volume 3 (Issues No. 21-28). With, A Catalogue of Australian Native Plants in Cultivation by E. Em. M. & E. R. Boddy.

By: Society for Growing Australian Plants.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Society for Growing Australian Plants, 1964.

Seller ID: 14039kms

Octavo, green leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, 384 pp + 74 pp. Cracked upper hinge; otherwise, a Near-Fine copy with embossed former-owner stamp to ffep. Illustrated with full-color photographs.
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Australian Plants, A Quarterly Periodical Devoted to the Australian Flora. Volume 4 (Issues No. 29-36). With, West Australian Wildflowers for Horticulture, by Ken Newby.

By: Society for Growing Australian Plants.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Society for Growing Australian Plants, 1966.

Seller ID: 14040kms

Octavo, green leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, 380 pp + 128 pp. Fine. Illustrated with full-color photographs.
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Australian Plants, A Quarterly Periodical Devoted to the Australian Flora. Volume 6 (Issues No. 45-52). With, West Australian Wildflowers for Horticulture, Part 2, by Ken Newbey.

By: Society for Growing Australian Plants.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Society for Growing Australian Plants, 1970.

Seller ID: 14042kms

Octavo, green leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, 380 pp + 256 pp. Near-Fine, with slightly soiled covers. Illustrated with full-color photographs.
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Anak-Anak Mas.

By: Verburg, Go.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Nijkerk: G. F. Callenbach, n.d. [ca. 1965.]

Seller ID: m2669

Octavo, green cloth, 224 pp. Very Good.
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Children of the Desert.

By: Wallace, Phyl and Noel.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Australia: Thomas Nelson (Australia) Limited, (1977). Revised Edition.

Seller ID: 2963bd

Quarto, hardcover (slick, full-color photo. illus. boards), full-color photo. illus. endpapers, 61 pp. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Fine (as New); in a Near-Fine dust jacket with former-owner's neatly inked notation to flap. From dust jacket: This new revised edition of Children of the desert has been published in response to the many people who have written to the Wallaces from all over the world asking what has happened to the children of the Desert People since the book was first published....Children of the Desert is an apt description of the children of the Pitjantjatjara pe...
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Category: South Pacific