Search Results: Titles starting with W from Lems Bookshop

Discovered by T S Eliot, Auden forged a new poetic voice that stirred the political and intellectual communities of his day. The book examines the progress of his career both as writer and teacher and is an intimate portrait of the man behind the reputation. 336 pages with 48 pages of black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker and stamp front endpaper, and references on title page. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.

Enlarged and revised edition. The author's travels in Holland, West Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France and Britain. 456 pages with 99 photographs, 27 in colour, and 10 maps. Book in very good+ condition with small rubbing to top front cover and some minor marks (see photo).

A one-volume guide to events, institutions, people, places, themes and topics of significance in the history of South Australia. 635 pages. Book and dust jacket in as new condition.

The authors travel from Sydney to Port Augusta then through the centre of Australia to Darwin to record the country and the people for the B.B.C. - such a trip had never been taken with cameras before. 258 pages with 3 colour and 50 black and white photographs, and endpaper map. Book in very good condition with light reader wear. Cover has some marks (see photo). No dust jacket.

The Chauvel's account of four years travelling in the footsteps of the Stone Age men and women in Australia's outback. "We want you to feel when you have read this book that you have been through Australia's outback and that you have met some of its most interesting people." 258 pages with 30 pages of black and white photos and 1 page of colour photos. Endpaper map. Book in very good condition. previous owners name on first page. Dust jacket intact but some tears and chips - see picture.

The author's account of the circumambulation of Lake Eyre with Warren Bonython in 1982, an expedition through one of the world's great salty wildernesses and a region as inhospitable as one could find over 33 days through a largely waterless environment. Negotiating over 500 kilometres on foot in such an environment is not for the faint hearted.116 pages with 21 colour photographs. Book in near fine condition with greetings to previous owner signed by the author on first page.

In November 1997 a team of palaeontologists and geologists mounted an expedition to the badlands of Patagonia in Argentina - they discovered a kind of dinosaur maternity ward, the largest prehistoric nesting ground ever found covering more than a square mile littered with tens of thousands dinosaur eggs. In 1999 they returned and found more fossils. 219 pages with 18 black and white photographs and 39 illustrations in the text. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

The story of Bertha Strehlow in verse - her life centering on the years she spent with her husband in Australia's Central Desert region, adventures and trials and the transforming nature of the desert and the Aboriginal people she meets. 150 pages with 6 illustrations. Book in near fine condition.

The author was the first person to walk the Flinders Ranges from end to end, Crystal Brook to Mount Hopeless, and he gained an intimate knowledge of the Ranges.231 pages with 32 mainly colour plates, 9 maps, 2 Diagrams and endpaper map. Book in very good+ condition Dust jacket in good+ condition with small piece missing top spine, small tear top front, and 3cm tear top back and some other minor wear.

The author travels from Beijing and the Great Wall of China across Mongolia, through Siberia to Moscow and then to the Berlin Wall. She wanted to visit Kiev to find her ancestral home in the Ukraine but was prevented by the Chernobyl disaster, yet elated by her freedom she experienced a vast range of emotions as she crossed these fraught and fascinating lands. 259 pages with endpaper map. Book inj very good condition ex library with stamp and reference on front and back endpaper, sticker and stamp on title page, and light tanning. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with stickers on spine and back.

The story of the author's Grandfather, an Aboriginal from the Pilbara region of Australia. 196 pages with about 20 black and white illustrations and 2 maps. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

A collection of twenty three authors show Australia through their experiences in different journeys throughout the land. 276 pages with 21 black and white photographs and endpaper map. Book in very good condition with binding showing along first page but all intact and light tanning. No dust jacket.

Having served in the AIF since 1940, in November 1943 the author became an official Australian accredited war correspondent if and when troops became engaged in the South-West Pacific. In January 1944 he was in New Guinea with troops fighting the Japanese. 266 pages with 27 black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition with minor pen marks on last page. No dust jacket.

The war within the war - the struggle against sickness and starvation as prisoners of war in Java and on the Burma- Thailand Railway as recorded by the senior medical officer Edward Dunlop who was credited as the inspiration and main instrument of the physical and spiritual survival of hundreds of Australian prisoners of war. 476 pages with 64 pages of illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with birthday greetings to previous owner on page v, light tanning and small stain to bottom edge of last 35 pages.

The history of destruction of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. 303 pages with 10 black and white photographs. Book in very good- condition with tanning

Based on the recollections of Commander C R Thompson Personal Assistant to the Prime Minister 1940-1945. The daily life of Colonel Warden aka Winston Churchill, as he directed the war effort, and his journeys throughout the world. 427 pages with 53 black and white illustrations including a fold out map. Book in very good condition with greetings to previous owner on first page, and some tanning. No dust jacket.

A human document about a time in Australia that profoundly affected a generation. A time of excitement, anxiety, austerity and glamour. 144 pages including 34 black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition with some minor wear.

The story of the First World War through diaries and letters of its combatants, eyewitnesses and victims that follows the chronology of the War. 381 pages including around 50 illustrations and 6 pages of maps. Book in as new condition.

A comprehensive history of the war in the Far East from the earliest days of unrest, including the 1931 Manchurian Railway incident, and the Sino-Japanese War, through to the arrival of the United States into the war, to the Japanese surrender in 1945. 144 pages with black and white photos on every page with last 15 pages and end page staining (coffee?) at top middle of pages and previous 50 pages much less noticable staining - none of the staining interfers with photos or text .Extent of stain can be seen from top of book. Otherwise book in very good condition ex library with stamps on first, last and title pages.Dust jacket in very good condition covered in clear plastic

The Royal Air Force service in Iraq from 1921 to 1930. 352 pages with 8 pages of black and white photographs and 19 maps. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker inside front and back covers, remnants of date sticker on last page, stamp and writing on copyright page, small stamp on top edge and library reference on spine (see photo). No dust jacket.