Backpack Across Australia
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Backpack Across Australia
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Australia $10 Australia |
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How Australia Compares $70 This book compares Australia with 17 other developed countries across a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions. |
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Australia Travel Australia Journal by CafePress $11 A great journal for travel notes on your trip or study abroad to Europe. You can even get it personalized. Australia Journal Scribble important stuff - lyrics, recipes, addresses, and more. Our Wire-O bound, 160 page journal has your choice of papers and measures 5 x 8, a handy on-the-go size to fit in your backpack. Get creative and let the muse flow. Back cove |
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Australia Australian Flag Australia Journal by CafePress $11 Australia Flag clothing, items Give a gift to celebrate Australian heritage. Show your colors or show your Australian pride with the Australia Flag proudly displayed at home or football soccer match Australia Journal Scribble important stuff - lyrics, recipes, addresses, and more. Our Wire-O bound, 160 page journal has your choice of papers and measures 5 x 8, a handy on-the-go size to fit in your backpack. Get creative and let the muse flow. Back cove |
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Australia 2012 Mini Wall Calendar $7.99 This thrilling mini wall calendar treks across the wondrous land of Australia. Take a walkabout through the Outback to the Great Barrier Reef, then back to the wondrous island of Tasmania. The sights will delight in this mini calendar of the country continent Australia. |
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Families Caring Across Borders $105 Presents an ethnographic account of the transnational care giving experiences and practices of migrants and refugees who live in Australia, and their parents in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and New Zealand. |
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Australia Touring Road Atlas $18.95 Measuring at 12in x 8.5in, the Australia Touring Atlas contains 112 pages of state, regional, suburban and city maps ... a complete selection of the essential maps needed to tour Australia. An important feature of this atlas is its special 'Touring Tips and Safety Section' which outlines the common road rules across Australia, tips on travelling with children, emergency first aid, what to do after a breakdown, and much more. A full National Parks amenities matrix and quick find distance charts are included. |
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The Australia Stories $4.99 Haunted by the deaths of his mother and grandmother, both of whom perished while hiking through Australia’s Blue Mountains, Sam Browne returns to the country of his mother’s birth in search of his family’s history and a way to make a place for himself within it. By reading his grandmother’s memoirs, Sam begins to connect to his family’s ancestral home and understand the reasons that she and her daughter after her were so drawn to the Australian landscape and the mystery found there.Drawing upon Australian culture and Aborigine mythology, The Australia Stories captures the strong hold that a place can have upon a person and the way a family’s legacy can live on in the present.About the AuthorTodd James Pierce was raised in California and is a graduate of UC Irvine’s MFA program and of Florida State’s Ph.D. program. His short stories and other writings have been included in more than fifty magazines and journals nationwide, including The Missouri Review, The North American Review, Fiction, Shenandoah, and The Indiana Review. He has lived in Australia and now resides with his wife in Tallahassee, Florida. The Australia Stories is his first novel.From the authorThe Australia Stories is the story of Sam Browne’s family—his famous grandmother who goes missing while hiking across the Outback and his mother who tries to fill the space left in her wake. But for me the novel began one spring afternoon when I was in Sydney with a friend and his grandfather, Mr. May. I’d just graduated from college and was teaching high school in Australia. After lunch we walked down to the water, right by the Harbour Bridge. We stood there a long time, the spring sun slanting down on us, and I noticed how Mr. May kept looking up at the bridge, the skin crinkling at the corners of his eyes. That bridge was a beautiful structure, a large steel arch spanning the harbor. Locals called it “The Coat Hanger” because of its shape. Mr. May told me something then that I’d never known: when he was a young man, during the Depression, he’d helped build that bridge, first with quarry work and later by carrying tools for men who were experienced in welding. I never forgot the way he looked at it, the longing visible in his face, and I never forgot what he said, “It’ll be here long after I’m gone.”I carried that day with me for a long time because I understood he was contemplating something I’d never considered: what it means to have a full life and what it means to leave it. Eventually Mr. May became my inspiration for the character Gregory, and eventually I understood that Gregory was married to one of my heroines, the woman who disappeared in the Outback. Gregory and his wife had children, and their children had children, one of whom turned out to be Sam Browne, the narrator of this book. It wasn’t until the following year, until I’d written the first two sections, that I |
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Across the Nightingale Floor $12.99 This is the first book in a new epic trilogy that has already become a bestselling sensation in England and Australia, earning comparisons to The Lord of the Rings . It begins with the legend of a nightingale floor in a black-walled fortress-a floor that sings in alarm at the step of an assassin. It will take true courage and all the skills of an ancient Tribe for one orphaned youth named Takeo to discover the magical destiny that awaits him...across the nightingale floor. |
