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A Venetian Journal
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Tessa Kiros

This journal is a companion volume to Venezia and the hope is it will inspire cooks to record their favourite recipes and fondest food memories. At the same time, it acts as Tessa's own journal of the tastes and sights of Venice.

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Life
Price: AUD 69.95 Author: Martha Holmes and Michael Gunton

Companion to a BBC series of the same name, this is animal life in all its glory, its cruelty, and its mystery. It not only identifies animals and shows them in their natural habitats, it also delves into their peculiarities and their coping mechanisms wi

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The World's Greatest Cities
Price: AUD 69.95 Author: Time Out

This is armchair travel at its best. Seventy-five cities, photographed expertly, described by local writers, and assessed by Time Out's specialist staff.

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Nine Lives
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: William Dalrymple

The title refers to the personal stories of nine people who each follow a different devotional path in their daily lives in India. This intrepid traveller uses these stories as his way of understanding the way India has changed so rapidly in the past deca

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Life in the Wild
Price: AUD 60.00 Author: Nicky Munro (ed)

From the publishing house of Dorling Kindersley, this is another informative and thoroughly researched addition to your home library. The photographs are, quite simply, stunning.

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Map Addict
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Mike Parker

As it says in the notes on the cover of this book, the author’s “career path has been a scenic B road rather than a speedy motorway”. However, for all the meandering, he has always had a love affair with cartography and employed it as a metaphor for where life has taken him. If he has been in love with cartography in general, he has been wedded to Ordnance Survey maps in particular, a little fact that is just one of the surprisingly enjoyable features of this gentle travel narrative.

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For Better For Worse, For Richer For Poorer
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Damian and Siobhan Horner

Damian Horner believes that having a young family is no barrier to travelling and experiencing the wide world. His authority on the subject comes from spending eight months on a boat with his wife, Siobhan, and their two very young children, plying the canals of France. The record of that journey appears, in one article from overseas, with the title Four Go Mad in a Boat so perhaps all was not plain sailing but he obviously still recommends getting out into the world.

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Bangkok Days
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Lawrence Osborne

Lawrence Osborne was surprised by the paucity of material on this city that is home to millions of people, many of them originally from other parts of the world. Yet, as he set about his task, describing his time there, he realised that part of the dearth of material is because Bangkok is such an enigma and many of its inhabitants are leading quite solitary lives. He found he was writing a book as much about the loneliness of the urban landscape as about a thriving, busy international city.

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The Yarra Valley
Price: AUD 54.95 Author: Nan and Adrian Francis

You could be forgiven for instantly thinking of the wineries when someone mentions the Yarra Valley. After living in the area for thirty years, Nan and Adrian Francis know that there is so much more. In the production of this beautiful photographic book they hope to raise awareness of our need to preserve the valley, not only for its beauty but for the great benefit it brings to the environment. These lovely people have donated most of the proceeds from the sales of this book so far to friends and victims of the Black Saturday bushfires. You will be truly delighted by the beauty and charm captured in this stunning book. A great tribute to a part of Victoria that we can all take pride in.

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Roger’s World
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Charles Siebert

Charles Siebert set out across America on what he describes as a civil safari, visiting captive chimpanzees that number in the thousands. He arrives in Florida and meets Roger and an incredible connection between them forms. Through the telling of this story, the author sheds light on how human beings interact with the animal world.

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Shadow Falls
Price: AUD 90.00 Author: Nick Brandt

This world renowned photographer freely admits that his photographs of the wildlife of Africa can appear romanticised, but he is in fact simply depicting them in close-up and with a genuine love for their majesty and beauty. Unlike many other photographers, he is dedicated to undertaking his work as though he were photographing humans; that is, he gets in close and takes intimate shots rather than shooting them through telephoto lenses from a safe distance.

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The Secret Life of France
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Lucy Wadham

Unlike those stories of travellers who temporarily make their home in a foreign land to experience the local culture, English-born Lucy Wadham found herself a permanent resident in France. At the age of nineteen she met and married a Frenchman, creating a family life with him that would end twenty-five years later when they divorced. She still lives in Paris and, through this book, details her experience and describes for us her view of French life and culture.

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Red Square Blues
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Kim Traill

Starting out on her big adventure in 1990, Kim Traill would spend the next seventeen years immersing herself in life in the Soviet Union.

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Brief Encounters
Price: AUD 34.99 Author: Susannah Fullerton

So often when we see and hear recently arrived overseas celebrities, we immediately want to know what they think of us and our homeland. Susannah Fullerton takes a look back to when writers of the ilk of Charles Darwin, Agatha Christie, and Mark Twain fetched up on these shores and investigates what their impression was of our Australia.

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The Red Highway
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Nicolas Rothwell

After time in the Middle East, Nicolas Rothwell returned to Darwin in 2005 and, through this book, takes us with him as he re-discovers this city and his country. In so doing, he also uncovers the many layers that make up the character of the Northern Territory.

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The Riverbones
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Andrew Westoll

Suriname is situated above Brazil and the Upper Amazon Basin and, it is claimed, is the last eden on earth in that ninety percent of the country is think, neo-tropical jungle. Andrew Westoll originally ventured there to follow troops of Capuchin monkeys, which he did, but then he found that the country from every aspect captivated him. Some five years later, he travelled once more to this exotic place. He tells a truly amazing tale of a largely unknown place.

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The Wisdom of Donkeys
Price: AUD 24.99 Author: Andy Merrifield

Described by Jim Crace as “zen and the art of donkey walking”, Andy Merrifield`s journey through Auvergne in France with his donkey, Gribouille, is a homage to the notion of tranquility in an increasingly chaotic world.

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No Stopping for Lions
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Joanne Glynn

Joanne, married to Neil who was born in Rhodesia, travels with her husband by LandCruiser in search of his memories and in the hope of building new ones. She fell in love with Africa and portrays her experience in this warm and heartfelt memoir.

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Dolce Vita Diaries
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Cathy Rogers & Jason Gibb

Olive farming in Italy was the specific reason these two television presenters ventured from all that was known to them. The usual steep learning curves were met and conquered – language, custom – but they hadn`t realised just how closed off the olive business was in Italy to small producers. Not to be thwarted, they begin a scheme that takes everyone, including Cathy and Jason, by surprise.

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Forecast
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Stephan Faris

Staff Review by Helen M: Forecast provides an overview of some of the political, cultural, and economic consequences of climate change over the last few decades. It is very readable; not overburdened with facts, figures, or formulae but focusing on the crisis in human terms. Human activity has always influenced, and been influenced by, climate change but Faris argues that we are now facing unprecedented effects. The need to sustain our population in fewer viable areas will lead to greater population shifts thus increasing local and international conflicts and humanitarian disasters.

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Old Growth
Price: AUD 65.00 Author: Peter McConchie

Photographer Peter McConchie presents a stunning collection of images of old growth trees, those majestic silent sentinels that grace our land. He also focuses the reader’s attention on the question of old growth forest conservation.

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Stones of Aran
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Tim Robinson

Tim Robinson moved from England to the Aran Islands on Ireland’s west coast in 1972. This book, the first of two, is a record of his exploration of those islands. He immerses himself in the historical and cultural forces at work in this ruggedly beautiful landscape and, by so doing, follows in the footsteps of many literary giants including W. H. Auden and W. B. Yeats.

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Boy He Cry
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Roger Averill

Staff Review by Nigel: When Roger Averill’s wife went to PNG to carry out some research work he decided to tag along with her. They ended up on a remote island that few knew how to find. I particularly enjoyed reading about the local characters and their customs in this tale of adventure, getting back to basics, and the ultimate sea change.

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Brunetti’s Venice
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Toni Sepeda

It must be a special kind of accolade to have a university lecture series devoted to the character you have created through your novels. Donna Leon owes this, and this book of walking tours around Venice to Toni Sepeda. Commissario Brunetti is your guide.

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Concepts Of Nature
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Andy Rouse

Many of the photographs presented in this book will be familiar. It is therefore especially interesting to be able to now identify the wildlife photographer and learn from him of the circumstances under which each was taken. Very much a book that celebrates nature and the wonder of our world.

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The Wisdom Of Birds
Price: AUD 65.00 Author: Tim Birkhead

Presenting a general history of ornithology, the author is also concerned to redress the lack of recognition given to John Ray. He details how the publication in 1691 of Rayâ€™s lifeâ€™s work forever altered our understanding of birds.

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From Russia With Lunch
Price: AUD 24.95 Author: David Smiedt

David Smiedtâ€™s ancestry is a very mixed bag. In this delightfully humorous yet touching book, he is keen to find the world his grandfather left behind in Lithuania. Sharing this particular grandfatherâ€™s physique and sense of humour, the resultant trip is a journey to himself, and beyond, which also makes it an enjoyable journey for the reader.

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Paris Tango
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: Carla Coulson

Describing the opportunity to work as a photographer in Paris as being allowed to play Alice looking into Wonderland, Carla Coulson invites the reader behind her camera, to look with her at the sights, people, architecture, culture, and daily life of a most loved city.

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