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Book Cover:  Explorers: Great Tales Of Adventure and Endurance
By Dorling Kindersley

An epic visual guide to the most intrepid explorers in history

Written in association with the RGS, Explorers brings you stories of great courage, spirit and endurance and opens your eyes to how these expeditions have shaped the course of human history. Set out into the unknown with 80 of the world?s greatest explorers and discover what motivated them to risk everything in pursuit of discovery.

An epic visual guide to the most intrepid explorers in history

Written in association with the RGS, Explorers brings you stories of great courage, spirit and endurance and opens your eyes to how these...

Published: 28/11/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405393539
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Earth
By Dorling Kindersley

A breathtaking and inspirational exploration of planet Earth

From the fiery mass of the Earth's core to the tip of the highest ice-capped mountain, explore every aspect of our planet in awe-inspiring photographic detail with the Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Earth.



A breathtaking and inspirational exploration of planet Earth

From the fiery mass of the Earth's core to the tip of the highest ice-capped mountain, explore every aspect of our planet in awe-inspiring photographic...

Published: 09/06/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405373692
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover: The Journals of Captain Cook
By James 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 the natural history of the Pacific. Accounts based on Cook's journals were issued at the time, but it was not until this century that the original journals...

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...

Published: 01/10/1999
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140436471
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  First Geography Encyclopedia
By Dorling Kindersley

Unearth the fascinating processes that have shaped our planet.

How does our planet work? What shapes it? How do people use its resources? Find out inside the First Geography Encyclopedia – the only encyclopedia for this age group that covers the subjects of human geography, physical geography and geology together in one volume.



Unearth the fascinating processes that have shaped our planet.

How does our planet work? What shapes it? How do people use its resources? Find out inside the First Geography Encyclopedia – the only...

Published: 04/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405362078
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Explorers
By Geographical Society Royal

An epic visual guide to the most intrepid explorers in history

Go on an extraordinary adventure with some of the world's greatest explorers – from Pytheas to Darwin. Written accounts in the explorers' own words, together with beautiful illustrations from their journals, tell the stories of their extraordinary adventures while special maps show the explorers' routes into the unknown.



An epic visual guide to the most intrepid explorers in history

Go on an extraordinary adventure with some of the world's greatest explorers – from Pytheas to Darwin. Written accounts in the explorers'...

Published: 27/09/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405346900
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover: The Revenge of Gaia: Why the earth is fighting back - and how we can still save humanity
For millennia, human kind has exploited the Earth. Now, as the world warms and weather patterns dramatically change, the Earth is beginning to fight back. Lovelock, one of the giants of environmental thinking, argues passionately and poetically that, although global warming is now inevitable, we are not yet too late to save at least part of human civilization.
For millennia, human kind has exploited the Earth. Now, as the world warms and weather patterns dramatically change, the Earth is beginning to fight back. Lovelock, one of the giants of environmental thinking...
Published: 02/07/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141025971
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  On Borrowed Time: Australia's Environmental Crisis and What We Must Do About It
Global warming, biodiversity loss, salinity . . . There is no doubt Australia's environmental problems appear huge and overwhelming. Not only is our unique natural heritage under threat, but the consequences for agriculture, tourism and the economy may be catastrophic. Can anything be done to halt the destruction?

The good news is much can be done. In this powerful and passionate book, David Lindenmayer...

Global warming, biodiversity loss, salinity . . . There is no doubt Australia's environmental problems appear huge and overwhelming. Not only is our unique natural heritage under threat, but the consequences...
Published: 03/09/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143006961
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover: The Log from the Sea of Cortez
In 1940, John Steinbeck set out on an expedition with his friend Ed Ricketts, the biologist on whom he based the character of Doc in Cannery Row . Taking a sardine boat, Western Flyer, out of Monterey, California, they embarked on a 4,000-mile trip into the Sea of Cortez that combined the scientific collection and observation of marine life with high adventure, philosophy, ethics and art. The log of...
In 1940, John Steinbeck set out on an expedition with his friend Ed Ricketts, the biologist on whom he based the character of Doc in Cannery Row . Taking a sardine boat, Western Flyer, out of Monterey...
Published: 05/02/2001
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141186078
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales
By Of Wales Gerald

Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188. In a style reminiscent of a diary, Gerald records the day-to-day events of the mission, alongside lively accounts of local miracles, folklore and religious relics such as Saint Patrick's...

Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary...

Published: 01/02/1979
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140443394
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Shouldn't Our Grandchildren Know
By Graham Chittleborough
Issues raised when this book was first published are even more important today. Graham Chittleborough's clear and straightforward presentation of the facts about the current state of the environment is a compelling read. Focusing on Australia, but relevant on a global basis, he casts an environmental scientist's keen eye on the legacy we will leave our grandchildren unless action is taken immediately...
Issues raised when this book was first published are even more important today. Graham Chittleborough's clear and straightforward presentation of the facts about the current state of the environment is...
Published: 27/11/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921064517
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Patriots: Defending Australia's Natural Heritage 1946-2004
By William J Lines
This is the story of the struggle by a small group of people who sought to defend the life that belongs to a continent. The name they gave that struggle was conservation.

The conservation movement has battled indifference and hostility throughout its history. Government and developers treat Australia as a quarry, and yet the movement has won some great victories and secured the preservation of some...

This is the story of the struggle by a small group of people who sought to defend the life that belongs to a continent. The name they gave that struggle was conservation.

The conservation movement has...

Published: 25/09/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702235542
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover:  Voyages & Discoveries
By Richard Hakluyt

Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century English. One of the epics of this great period of expansion, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation describes, in the words of the explorers themselves...

Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century...

Published: 01/01/1983
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140430738
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus
By Christopher Columbus

No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America, although he still believed he had reached Asia. Columbus himself is revealed...

No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected...

Published: 20/12/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140442175
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  High and Dry
Australia's climate is changing. Water shortage is chronic and irreversible, temperatures are rising, extreme weather events are more frequent, species are dying on land and at sea.

The world's scientists agree that to avoid the worst environmental damage we must cut at least 60 per cent of global emissions by 2050. Instead, Australia is on track to Increase emissions by 70 per cent over this period...

Australia's climate is changing. Water shortage is chronic and irreversible, temperatures are rising, extreme weather events are more frequent, species are dying on land and at sea.

The world's scientists...

Published: 27/06/2007
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742284057
Book Cover:  Rainforest Country
By Stanley Breeden & Kaisa Breeden

Few places in Australia are of such pivotal ecological importance as the tropical rainforests of northeast Queensland. Stunning in their diversity and vigour, they are all that remains of the great Gondwana forests that once covered the continent. As well as a spectacle of great beauty, they tell the story of flowering plant evolution.

Few places in Australia are of such pivotal ecological importance as the tropical rainforests of northeast Queensland. Stunning in their diversity and vigour, they are all that remains of the great Gondwana...

Published: 21/03/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781921888618
RRP: $75.00
Book Cover:  1788
By Watkin Tench & Flannery Tim

Watkin Tench sailed to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. In his late twenties, a captain of the marines, he was insatiably curious about the new British colony of Australia. In his four years in the country, he wrote two books about the early settlement which were bestsellers in their day. These are A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay (1789) and An Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson...

Watkin Tench sailed to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. In his late twenties, a captain of the marines, he was insatiably curious about the new British colony of Australia. In his four years in...

Published: 05/01/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921520044
RRP: $25.95

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08 Feb 2012
USBBY annual list of outstanding international books

Selected for the 2012 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of Outstanding International Books for children and young adults.

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The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett

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