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Australia's Great Barrier Reef
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef

by Endean, Robert

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University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Brisbane, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Diagrammatic. 1.7 kg; XX, 352 pages, with frontispiece map, list of the 299 illustrations, list of the 32 in text figures, double page map and two other maps, indexed. In original hardcover binding with gilt titling of the front panel and the spine, and colour illustrated dust jacket. The dust jacket is rubbed across the top edge and has a 0.5 inch split either side of the bottom of the spine, and a trace of fading to the right-hand margin of the rear panel. . This book presents a comprehensive survey of all aspects of the remarkable region known as the Great Barrier Reef. This is the first book to describe all the families of animals and plants found on the reefs, (except for a feud Pauline known groups, which are dealt with higher levels of classification,) and to list their common genera, so the reader, with the help of the colour photographs will be… Read More
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THE BECKONING WEST. The Story of H.S. Trotman and the Canning Stock Route

THE BECKONING WEST. The Story of H.S. Trotman and the Canning Stock Route

by Smith, Eleanor

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Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 600 g; vii, 220 pp., map, appendixes, index. Very slight rubbing to the base edge of the dustjacket, and offset tanning on the top of the front paste down opposite the news agency sale sticker. Trotman joined the Lands and Surveys department in 1894 and was involved in five major expeditions into the interior, including the search for lost members of the Calvert expedition, the survey of the Rabbit-proof fence, and the survey for the Canning Stock Route. A picture can be provided to help with assessing condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Local History -- Queensland; Exploration; Australia; Inventory No: 0230038. .
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THE BECKONING WEST. The Story of H.S. Trotman and the Canning Stock Route

THE BECKONING WEST. The Story of H.S. Trotman and the Canning Stock Route

by Smith, Eleanor

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Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 600 g; vii, 220 pp., map, appendixes, index. Minor chipping at the head and foot of the spine region. Slight yellowing of the top edge and the top half of the front edge of the book. Trotman joined the Lands and Surveys department in 1894 and was involved in five major expeditions into the interior, including the search for lost members of the Calvert expedition, the survey of the Rabbit-proof fence, and the survey for the Canning Stock Route. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Local History -- Queensland; Exploration; Australia; Inventory No: 0203926. .
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Daintree ; Where Rainforest Meets the Reef

Daintree ; Where Rainforest Meets the Reef

by Russell, Rupert Hamilton

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Kevin Weldon, McMahon's Point, Sydney, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Leo Meier -- Photographer & Frith, Clifford & Frith, Dawn. 1.45 kg; 256 pages, illustrated throughout with colour photography, mostly full page, with map, bibliographic references, endnotes, index. Decorated end pages, colour illustrated dustwrapper which replicates the colour illustrated laminated boards beneath. Previous owner's name on first blank page. This book was published jointly with the Australian Conservation Foundation. Three of Australia's great leading photographers have portrayed the moods and beauty of the Daintree region for The Australian Conservation Foundation in this record of the last great tropical rainforest in the world. -- front fold over blurb. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. No damage to describe. Clean tidy copy. Dust Jacket faded on spine section.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Leo… Read More
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Daintree : Where Rainforest Meets the Reef

by Russell, Rupert Hamilton

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Kevin Weldon, McMahon's Point, Sydney, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Leo Meier -- Photographer & Frith, Clifford & Frith, Dawn. 1.45 kg; 256 pages, illustrated throughout with colour photography, mostly full page, with map, bibliographic references, endnotes, index. Decorated end pages, colour illustrated dustwrapper which replicates the colour illustrated laminated boards beneath. Apart from a small rub to the top of the spine, and the previous owner's name on the half title page, the book is in very good condition. This book was published jointly with the Australian Conservation Foundation. Three of Australia's great leading photographers have portrayed the moods and beauty of the Daintree region for The Australian Conservation Foundation in this record of the last great tropical rainforest in the world. -- front fold over blurb. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request… Read More
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A Different Drummer; The Story of E.J. Banfield, the Beachcomber of Dunk Island

A Different Drummer; The Story of E.J. Banfield, the Beachcomber of Dunk Island

by Noonan, Michael

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University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Brisbane, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. XII, 268 pages, includes chapter notes, bibliography, and index. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and reproductions of documents and ephemera in black-and-white. Colour illustrated dust jacket. The top edge of the text block shows very faint traces of foxing. Otherwise the book is without damage. Banfield, a pioneer newspaperman, wrote innumerable articles and for books about his life on Dunk Island with his wife Bertha. These writings, together with Ted Banfield's day-to-day Dunk Island diaries and other unpublished material, have provided Michael Noonan with the basis of his biography. -- front fold over blurb Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Local History --… Read More
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End of a Beginning

End of a Beginning

by Ford, Margaret

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Hodder & Stoughton, Melbourne, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 192 pages, foreword by Rev Fred McKay, successor to "Flynn of the Inland" and Superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission, preface by author and list of illustrations. At the beginning of the text is a map of Queensland showing routes and areas of patrol for the Inland Mission. The text is illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photography. illustrated dust wrapper is rubbed at each of the 8 corners, with most of the damage at the top of the spine section, and the bottom left of the spine section. Internally clean. No annotations the author's only home for the 7 years while on patrol for the Australian Inland Mission was the vehicle in which they travelled and their parish – the northern 3rd of Queensland –– the "forgotten top end of Australia". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More
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Flynn of the Inland (Australian Classics)

Flynn of the Inland (Australian Classics)

by Idriess, Ion L

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Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1987. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 400 g; XII, 244 pages, internally clean and neat and tidy; colour illustrated dust jacket. "I have written Flynn of the Inland in order the that the people of Australia may learn something of the work which has been and is being done for isolate it and suffering humanity by the Australian Inland Mission, its Padres and doctors, its Sisters and voluntary workers -- and by one Padre in particular." -- from the author's note As can be seen in the attached image the spine section, and the top of the front panel of the dustjacket have faded, to a Robin Egg blue. There is no other damage to describe. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Aboriginal -- Australia; History -- Australia; Local History -- Northern Territory; Local History… Read More
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A Majority of One: Tom Aikens and Independent Politics in Townsville

A Majority of One: Tom Aikens and Independent Politics in Townsville

by Moles, Ian

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University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Brisbane, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 500 g; XVI, 260 pages, last two pages blank, three maps, appendices, chapter notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photography. Photographic illustrated dustwrapper. Minor rubbing of the edges of the dustwrapper, otherwise in very good condition. "This is not strictly speaking a work of biography, though it is at the same time plainly biographical. Indeed it could probably best be described as three biography is rolled into one, each information with, and inseparable from, the other two. They are of a politician, his hometown and his party. The politician is one of the most colourful and controversial figures ever to have stormed the hustings in Australia. "Renegade", "dingo", "rat", "mudslinger", "communist", "fascist": he was bombarded with every insult in the political… Read More
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The Queensland Years of Robert Herbert, Premier: Letters and Papers

The Queensland Years of Robert Herbert, Premier: Letters and Papers

by Herbert, Robert (Knox, Bruce editor)

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University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 261pp black & white photos. Bottom Edges of boards shelf worn. . At 28, Herbert was the first Premier of Queensland, and at 40 the permanent head of the Colonial Office. Here are published his letters to his family and selected speeches made during his career in Queensland from 1860-66. Includes a lengthy introduction by Knox. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Politics & Government; Biography; Australiana; Local History -- Queensland; Australia; ISBN: 0702213624. ISBN/EAN: 9780702213625. Inventory No: 0200026. . 9780702213625
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STORM IN THE TROPICS: The Historic Mt. Isa Struggle 1964-65
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STORM IN THE TROPICS: The Historic Mt. Isa Struggle 1964-65

by Thomas, Pete

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The Author, Brisbane, 1965. First Edition. Stapled Card. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 64 pp., Illustrated with black and white photographs. An account of the industrial dispute in Mt. Isa, a Queensland mining town. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Politics & Government; Unions -- Australia; Local History -- Queensland; Australia; Inventory No: 0207203. .
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The Struggle for the Great Barrier Reef

The Struggle for the Great Barrier Reef

by Clare, Patricia

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Collins, London, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 224 pp., list of illustrations, acknowledgements, appendices. Text illustrated with coloured photographs. Green boards with gilt writing on the spine. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a Great Barrier Reef Island, black and white writing on the front cover and on the spine. The Great Barrier Reef off Queensland coast is a natural wonder of the world. In this book Patricia Clare shows "the system in all its variety and beauty - and to demonstrate how industrial exploitation and nature in itself present an ever-increasing threat to its existence.". Slight rubbing at the top and bottom of the spine section of the dustjacket, otherwise no damage to describe. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Natural History & Resources; Natural History -- Australia; Local History… Read More
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Theodore; His life and Times

Theodore; His life and Times

by Young, Irwin 1911-1968

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Alpha Books, Sydney, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. XXI, 190 pp., Biography Of E.G. ( Edward Granville 1884-1950 ) Theodore Former Deputy Prime Minister Of Australia During World War 2 (With foreword by E.G. Whitlam). With 10 full-page plates, and facsimiles. A study of Edward Granville Theodore (1884-1950) former Premier of Queensland and Deputy Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia during the Great Depression. the dust jacket has a tear at the top right, and bottom left of the front panel, with loss at the bottom, and several short tears on the bottom edge of the rear panel, age toning of the page edges, no other damage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Politics; Local History -- Queensland; Australia; 20th… Read More
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