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Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True Story
An utterly gripping non-fiction adventure narrative, 'Lost in Shangri-La' is an untold true story of war, anthropology, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission.Three months before the end of World War II, a U.S. Army pla...
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Journals of Captain Cook
Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back detailed descriptions of ...
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Arctic and Antarctic
Brrr! Find out what it's like in some of the coldest, snowiest, most frozen places in the world. Take a trip around an iceberg as big as a mountain, dive into the icy seas with seals and sea lions, meet penguins and polar bears - but not at the sa...
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Madeira
DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Madeira will lead you straight to the very best of this island. Whether you're looking to relax on gorgeous beaches, find the liveliest nightlife, or hike through some of the most exquisite scenery, this guide is ...
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Gran Canaria
DK Eyewitness Top 10: Gran Canaria will lead you straight to the best attractions that this vibrant island has to offer. From the stunning Catedral de Santa Ana in Las Palmas to the awe-inspiring views from the central mountains in La Cumbre, disc...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Australia
DK Eyewitness Australia travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions this extraordinary country has on offer. Packed with colour photographs, illustrations and detailed maps discover Australia region-by region; from the aboriginal s...
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Sex Lives Of Cannibals
Fantasized about quitting the 9-5? Walking away from credit card debt and student loans? Think living in the South Pacific for two years sounds like a perfect solution and perhaps even a winning idea for your first novel? Maarten Troost does just ...
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This Horrid Practice
'Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand hist...
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Australian Wine Companion 2013
James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion is the No. 1 bestselling guide on wineries and wine in Australia. Keenly anticipated by winemakers, faithful collectors and wine lovers alike, the 2013 edition has been completely revised and updated to b...
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Last of the Last - The Final Survivor of the First World War
Before his death at the age of 110 in May 2011, Claude Choules was the last man alive who had served in both world wars.Claude learned life's lessons during a rural childhood in England and later in the Royal Navy as a boy sailor, before graduatin...
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World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with another epic - and groundbrea...
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Walking in the Canary Islands: Vol 2 East - Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and Graciosa
Guidebook covering walks in the Canary Islands, including walking in Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, these 50 routes take in a wide variety of landscapes from the coast to the highest mountains. Walks vary from spectacular dune walks to...
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Lonely Planet Perth & Western Australia - Chapter from Australia Travel Guide
'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other'. New York TimesThis eBook offering is an excerpt of Lonely Planet's latest Australia guide book and includes: Perth & Western Australia chapters Understanding Australia Perth & Wester...
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Aggers' Ashes
An inside account of England's Ashes triumph in Australia 2010/11.England's much celebrated Ashes win by two clear matches with three comprehensive innings victories must rank as one of the finest of any English cricket team from any era. It kept ...
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Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy in the Extreme South
David Crane has given us the definitive biography of one of Britain's greatest heroes and explorers.'It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more...For God's sake look after our people.'These were the final words written in Scott's diary o...
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Trouble in Paradise - Uncovering the Dark Secrets of Britain's Most Remote Island (Text only)
A shocking expose of the terrible secrets at the heart of the Pitcairn Island community - a tale of systematic child abuse and rape which stretches back over 40 years.Pitcairn Island - home to the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty - has l...
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One Hundred Days (Text Only)
The bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the Falklands War, written by the commander of the British Task Force.On 5 April 1982, three days after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, British armed forces were ordered to sail ...
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Beyond the Coral Sea: Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific (Text Only)
East of Java, west of Tahiti and north of the Cape York peninsula of Australia lie the unknown paradise islands of the Coral, Solomon and Bismarck Seas. They were perhaps the last inhabited place on earth to be explored by Europeans, and even toda...
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Birds of New Zealand, Hawaii, Central and West Pacific (Collins Field Guide)
The essential guide to identifying every species of bird you may see in this area, for both tourists and wildlife enthusiasts.Featuring over 750 species, Birds of New Zealand, Hawaii, Central and West Pacific is the only field guide to illustrate ...
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Ice Balloon
The story of the only person to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon, and the golden age of Polar Exploration.In August 1930 a Norwegian sloop sailing in the Arctic Ocean moored at a remote island. Here, the crew members found a body leaning...
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Floods in an Arid Continent. Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 39.
Nowhere are floods more paradoxical than in the generally arid Australian continent. This book brings together experts in meteorology, hydrology, limnology, ornithology, landscape ecology, veterinary and medical sciences, economics, anthropology a...
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Science into Policy - Global Lessons from Antarctica
Science into Policy: Global Lessons from Antarctica reveals a unique model for integrating Earth system science with environmental and resource policies to balance economic, governmental, and societal interests. Since the International Geophysical...
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Polynyas: Windows to the World
Polynyas are relatively ice-free regions when compared to the areas around them, and have been suggested as being foci for energy transfer between the atmosphere and ocean, ice "e;factories?, and critical areas with respect to polar ecosystems...
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Environmental Contamination in Antarctica - A Challenge to Analytical Chemistry
This thought-provoking and ambitious volume surveys the causes and extent of environmental contamination in Antarctica, and looks critically at future prospects. It highlights the key role that modern techniques of analytical chemistry play in ach...
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Fly River, Papua New Guinea - Environmental Studies in an Impacted Tropical River System
The Fly River and its tributaries, the Ok Tedi and Strickland rivers, are located in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. All three rivers have their source in the rugged central mountain range of the island and eventually flow, via the Fly R...
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Antarctic Climate Evolution
This is the first book dedicated to the developing knowledge on how the world's largest ice sheet formed and changed over its 34 million years history. In explaining the story of Antartica, information on terrestrial and marine geology, sedimentol...
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In The South Seas
IN THE SOUTH SEAS records Stevenson's travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert Islands during 1888-9. Originally drafted in journal form while Stevenson travelled, it was then ambitiously rewritte...
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Great Southern Land - A New History of Australia
Australia is a dynamic multi-cultural society, viewed by many as the world's most desirable place to live. Here Frank Welsh traces Australia's intriguing and varied history to examine how this society emerged, from its ancient Aborigine tribes and...
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Falklands War, 1982
The Falklands War began when Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982. Martin Middlebrook has sought out all the available evidence from documentary and personal sources on both sides and comes to some controversial conclusi...
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