The Tyranny of Distance: how Distance shaped Australia's History
by Geoffrey Blainey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0333139992
- ISBN 13
- 9780333139998
- Seller
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Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
This was Geoffrey Blainey's breakthrough book, and very influential in its day, and still relevent now. Everybody knows Australia is a long way from anywhere else, and also that most places in Australia are a long way from other places in Australia, with not much going on in-between. Blainey showed in this book how those facts affected the way the country developed. It's a great read, and even nicer in this folio-sized illustrated version, with some lovely plates along with pertinent black-and-white illustrations. This particular copy is in great nick, although the covers are slightly warped, probably from sitting on a car seat in the sun. I've got it in the book-press, so by the time you buy it they may be straighter...
222 pages. Colour plates, B&W photographs and drawings, notes, index. Book in good condition, covers slightly warped from being in the sun, but binding tight and text good. Dust jacket has a couple of small tears and bumps, but is in good condition otherwise. Photographs show actual book for sale. As this is a folio/heavy book, there may be additional postage charges for overseas delivery (book ships from Australia).
222 pages. Colour plates, B&W photographs and drawings, notes, index. Book in good condition, covers slightly warped from being in the sun, but binding tight and text good. Dust jacket has a couple of small tears and bumps, but is in good condition otherwise. Photographs show actual book for sale. As this is a folio/heavy book, there may be additional postage charges for overseas delivery (book ships from Australia).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eucalyption Fine Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121
- Title
- The Tyranny of Distance: how Distance shaped Australia's History
- Author
- Geoffrey Blainey
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0333139992
- ISBN 13
- 9780333139998
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1975
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Australiana;
- Size
- Folio
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About the Seller
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