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James: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024! 'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust From...
Flags on the Bayou
A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in...
Flags on the Bayou
A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in...
South: The Endurance Expedition
One of the most thrilling of all true adventure stories, reissued for its centenary The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British...
South: The Endurance Expedition
Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men hoping to be the first to traverse the...
South: The Endurance Expedition
Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men hoping to be the first to traverse the...
Tupaia, Isaac and Cook: The Search for the 'Great South Land'
Age range 6 to 9 There are as many mistruths as there are truths about James Co ok and his famous first Voyage of discovery, including his secret orders to...
Notes on Spain and the Spaniards, in the Summer of 1859, With A Glance At Sardinia
Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 This is a rare travelogue of an adventurous Charlestonian that highlights the rich intellectual life of the antebellum South. Privately published in...
South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead the first trek across Antarctica via the South Pole. The expedition would prove fraught with adventure -...
The Artist Explorers: Painting The New World
It was in large part the lure of riches, such as spices and gold, and the promise of fertile land which tempted the British and other Europeans to venture out...
The South
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 'Spellbinding' THE TIMES 'An exquisite, languorous novel' OBSERVER 'Heartstoppingly vivid' OISIN MCKENNA A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over...
Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong
Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize'Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening' Sunday TimesA book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the...
South With Scott
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Author: Admiral Lord MountevansBinding: HardbackPublished: COLLINS, 1961Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerSouth With Scott chronicles the epic and tragic British...
Babylon South
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South With Scott
$12.00 AUD
Author: Admiral Lord MountevansBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins Sons and Co., 1961Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.This historical account...
Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong
Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize 'Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening' Sunday Times A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit,...
Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2773
$110.00 AUD
Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box — 18 Books A genuinely distinguished international collection, anchored by a Nobel laureate, a Giller Prize winner, and an Orange Prize winner, and ranging...
Ocean Enough and Time: Discovering the Waters Around Antarctica
$15.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: James Gorman Format: Hardback...
Survey of London. The Parish Of St. James Westminster Part One : South of Piccadilly 2 Volume Set - Survey of London volumes XXIX and XXX
$130.00 AUD
Author: Sheppard, F. H. (general editor)Binding: HardbackPublished: London County Council, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis two volume set of architectural history presents a meticulous survey...
South With Scott
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Author: Admiral Sir Edward R. G. R. EvansBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Fold-out map intact. South With Scott presents a firsthand...
Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History of the Far
A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudes. A northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south - the far southern...
Flags on the Bayou
Author: James Lee Burke (Author)Format: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 227g, 320 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023 A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and...
A Turn in the South
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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America
A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey's role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America Hubert Humphrey was liberalism's most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a...
So Came They South
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Author: Robert Clancy; Alan RichardsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Shakespeare Head Press, Australia, 1988Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn this compelling work of historical fiction, "So Came They South" by...
The Great Southland
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Southern Light: Images from Antarctica
This collection of striking images from Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic is the result of six journeys made by Australian photographer David Neilson in his quest to capture the exquisite light...
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown
'A formidable freestyle book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' ROLLING STONE The...
The Secret Life of James Cook
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Graeme Lay Format: Paperback...
Captain James Cook
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Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown
'A formidable free-style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' Rolling Stone magazine...
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown
'A formidable freestyle book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' ROLLING STONE The...
Sophie Scott Goes South
An adventure-filled picture book for younger readers based on best-selling and much-loved author Alison Lester's real experiences aboard an Antarctic expedition ship. "A fascinating combination of information and adventure, bringing...
James Agee: A Life
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. James Agee—poet, novelist, screenwriter, and film critic—burned through life with an intensity...
Southways
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Beneath Southern Seas: The Silent Service
$65.00 AUD
Author: Jon Davison And Tom AlliboneBinding: HardbackPublished: UWA Press., 2005Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor bumps to DJ.This compelling historical account, Beneath Southern Seas: The Silent Service,...
James Joyce: A Portrait Of The Artist
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures have cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as James Joyce — and Stan Gebler Davies's James Joyce: A...
Between Two Gardens: Reflections On Sexuality And Religious Experience
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the most intimate dimensions of human experience intersect with the sacred? In Between...
In the Shadow of the Alabama: The British Foreign Office and the
This book looks at an allegation of betrayal made against a young Foreign Office clerk, Victor Buckley, who, it was claimed, leaked privileged information to agents of the southern States...
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown
'A formidable freestyle book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' ROLLING STONE The...
The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown And The American Revolution On The Southern Frontier
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Author: Edward J. CashinBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Georgia Press, 1989Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsEdward J. Cashin's The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown And The American...
A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects: From Cook's
A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects covers just over 150 years of polar exploration during which a mysterious southern continent and an elusive northern sea-route became less incognita...