text publishing melbourne vic (38 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. ex library. 2 sticker on rear cover. book is in good clean condition with some light wear. Ex-Library.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, with front cover tail right corner now protected with book tape. Previous owner has signed inside page. Pages are sunned. First published in two volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia by the man who gave Australia its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and communicating with Indigenous Australians in the scrub and wilderness. His descriptions of the difficulties that he and his sailors faced still bristle with energy and immediacy two hundred years later. This edition includes the voyage Flinders made with George Bass to prove that Tasmania was an island.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Inga Clendinnen writes about a wide range of topics, from the books that terrified her as a child to what history can teach us about ourselves and our times. She recounts the experience of falling ill and the prospect of death. And she writes movingly about people who have changed her life.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page. Matilda lives on an island somewhere in the Pacific, but this is no paradise. Civil war is a fact of life, though at first, the village is largely left alone by the soldiers and the rebel fighters.The school is closed, but then Mr Watts, the only white man on the island, steps forward to do what he can to help. He begins by reading Great Expectations aloud to his students, a chapter a day. Stories flourish on the island. While the lives of Pip and Magwitch and other Dickens characters are transformed in their new tropical setting, the locals come to the schoolhouse to tell their own tales about the meaning of the colour blue, about broken dreams, blackbirds and devil women.In Matilda's eyes, Pip is as real as any living person. He has become her friend. She writes his name in the sand and decorates it with shells. That's where the redskin soldiers see it and decide they must track this stranger down. Who is this Mr Pip? The search for him will have devastating consequences for Matilda, Mr Watts and the entire village. (publisher blurb).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Small tear to page tail now protected by book tape - a page that wasn't cut correctly at printing.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Some general edgewear. Sunning of pages. Book is clean and binding intact. Previous owner has signed inside page.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. On a cloudless summer day in 1900, a group from Appleyard College for Young Ladies goes for a picnic. In the heat of the afternoon sun, three girls climb through the scrub and disappear. Ethereal and enigmatic, Picnic at Hanging Rock has haunted the Australian imagination for half a century. Initially published in 1967.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.Shortly before his death in 1981, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather gave him a couple of filled exercise books. Stories he'd heard as a child had led Hertmans to suspect that their contents might be disturbing, and for years he didn't dare to open them. When he finally did, he discovered unexpected secrets. His grandfather's life was marked by years of childhood poverty in late-nineteenth-century Belgium, horrific experiences on the frontlines during the First World War and the loss of the young love of his life.He sublimated his grief in the silence of painting. Drawing on these diary entries, his childhood memories and the stories told within Urbain's paintings, Hertmans has produced a poetic novelisation of his grandfather's story, brought to life with great imaginative power and vivid detail. War and Turpentine is an enthralling search for a life that coincided with the tragedy of a century and a posthumous, almost mythical attempt to give that life a voice at last. (back cover).

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned. Some water staining near left spine at book back. Country is a panoramic book about a scientist and a continent. As he describes his own passionate encounters with the land and its people, Flannery pays particular attention to the evolution of Australia's most distinctive animal, the kangaroo. He shows us how the destiny of this extraordinary creature is inseparable from the environment which created it. The kangaroo may seem as familiar to us as the eucalypt or the desert, a symbol on a road sign or the tail of a passenger plane, but readers of Country will never see our national emblem in the same way again. Tim Flannery's Country teaches us how this vast continent is not at all 'a ghastly blank', but a land of subtlety and complexity that becomes comprehensible to those who take the time to learn its hidden and ancient languages.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good to very good condition. Wear to book edges and corners. Interior and binding are still very good. Australia's favourite country cop, Hirsch, is back in Consolation, the follow-up to Peace and Bitter Wash Road. Winter in Tiverton. Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is stealing women's underwear, and Hirsch knows enough about that kind of crime, how it can escalate, not to take it lightly. However, the more immediate concerns are a call from the high school, a teacher worried about a student who may be in danger at home. Another call, a different school, a man enraged about the principal's treatment of his daughter. A little girl in harm's way and an elderly woman in danger. An absent father who isn't where he's supposed to be; another who flees to the back country armed with a rifle. Families under pressure. And the cold, seeping feeling that something is very, very wrong. (publisher blurb).

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Creasing to front and back covers. Previous owner has stamped inside page. The Explorers tells an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving frontier between European invaders and the Aboriginal custodians of the continent.This compelling anthology documents almost four centuries of exploration and takes us into a world of danger, compassion and humour. Many of the stories beggar belief. Maori chief Te Pahi saves the lives of condemned thieves in Sydney in 1805 - Hume and Hovell argue over their frying pan - John Ainsworth Horrocks is shot by his camel. Brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery,The Explorers draws on the most remarkable body of non-fiction writing ever produced in Australia.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Tiny mark on first preliminary page.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly to front cover right corners, now protected with book tape. This quartet of true stories, of displacement, of survival and of resistance spans the globe and reflects the universal spirit of humanity. A miller in rural China sits silently with the thrum of his waterwheel. A survivor of Pol Pot's killing fields works to bring music and joy to a new generation. A theatre troupe rises out of the horror of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. A Wurundjeri elder shares her knowledge of the land and the story of her great-great-uncle's stand against invasion. And a family leave the old world for the new, unaware it is a land far more ancient than the one they had left.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Fergus Hume's sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia's original blockbuster and international best-selling crime novel. First published in 1886 it was an overnight sensation selling hundreds of thousands of copies around the world and being translated into eleven languages. Over a century later Hansom Cab has lost none of its page-turning power. Set in the charming and deadly streets of Melbourne this brilliantly plotted murder thriller tells the story of a crime committed by an unknown assassin. With its panoramic depiction of a bustling yet uneasy city Hansom Cab has a central place in Australian literary history. Hansom Cab has been adapted for television and screened on ABCTV in October 2012. It is directed by Shawn Seet (Underbelly All Saints The Secret Life of Us) and stars Shane Jacobson Anna McGahan Helen Morse Oliver Ackland and John Waters. (back cover).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned. Dust jacket is in good condition with small tears to the top edge that are now covered with protective book tape. Interior and binding are still very good. In 1806, William Thornhill, a man of quick temper and deep feelings, was transported from the slums of London to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife, Sal, and their children, he arrives in a harsh land he cannot understand. But the colony can turn a convict into a free man. Eight years later, Thornhill sails up the Hawkesbury to claim a hundred acres for himself. Aboriginal people have already lived on that river. And other recent arrivals?Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs Herring?are finding their own ways to respond to them. Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, soon has to make the most difficult choice of his life. Inspired by Grenville's research into her own family history.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Small mark on page 156. Driving one night along the deserted track that leads to the farm, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine run into a mysterious creature. They dump the body into the farm's deep well but the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book edges and corners. Minor mark on tail foredge. Pages are sunned. Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrous effects on many of the Earth's ecosystems and could lead to our downfall. But equally, Flannery argues, we are now equipped as never before to explore our true relationship with the planet on which our biological, economic and cultural futures depend. Here on Earth is not just a dazzling account of life on our planet. It will change the way you live.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owners have signed and added ownership sticker to title page. One Leg Over is a story of love and romance, fun and glamour, loss and great sadness, but above all, it's a celebration of a wonderful life. Robin Dalton was born Robin Eakin in Sydney in 1920 and has lived in London since 1946. She has been a television performer, intelligence agent, literary agent, film producer, and author. Her 1965 account of her childhood in Kings Cross, Aunts Up the Cross, remains an Australian classic.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. With warmth, humour, and rich evocative detail, A Fifty-Year Silence is a heartbreaking uplifting love story spanning two continents and three generations.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners. Pages are sunned. Large format paperback. The Lieutenant was inspired by a real story hidden for two centuries in the pages of a couple of shabby blue notebooks stored in a London manuscript library. The notebooks belonged to William Dawes, a soldier in the first days of the Colony of New South Wales, and they record his efforts to learn the language of the indigenous people of Sydney. Between the lines they reveal an extraordinary friendship - warm, playful and respectful - between him and one of his teachers, a young indigenous girl called Patyegarang. Reading the conversations in the notebooks - what she said, what he said - you long to know who these two remarkable people were, who could reach out across gulfs of difference and form a friendship that still blazes off the page two centuries later. Those conversations were the starting-point for the novel. I didn't change any of the words in those conversations, but tried to draw a picture of the circumstances in which they might have happened. This is a novel, but it stays close to the historical events. They bring up issues that are still with us. How do we value difference, and learn to communicate across it? How do we learn how to listen as well as speak, and how do we respond when life presents us with a moral choice that leaves no room for evasion? (Kate Grenville).

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Stamps and stickers on inside. Curl to front cover. Faint marks on tail foredge. Body text and binding are still very good.Four Australian women writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a time when stories of bush heroism and mateship abounded, a time when a writing career might be an elusive thing for a woman.Friends and Rivals is a vivid and engaging account of the intersecting and entwined lives of Ethel Turner, author of the much-loved Seven Little Australians, Barbara Baynton, who wrote of the harshness of bush life, Nettie Palmer, essayist and critic, and Henry Handel Richardson, of The Getting of Wisdom and The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney fame. Brenda Niall illuminates a fascinating time in Australia's literary history and brings to life the remarkable women who made it so.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. In Dig 3FT NW, the young adult edition of her bestselling classic The Dig Tree, Sarah Murgatroyd reveals new historical and scientific evidence to tell the story of the disaster with all its heroism and romance, its discoveries, coincidences and lost opportunities. Generously illustrated with photographs, paintings and maps, Dig 3FT NW is a spell-binding book for teenagers and adults alike.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned. Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twenties ignited in the sisters a lifelong love of the Kimberley, along with a growing unease about the situation of the Aboriginal people employed there. Through war, love affairs, children and eventually old age, the Duracks continued to write and paint, their closely intertwined creative lives always shaped by the enduring power of the Kimberley region. With unprecedented access to hundreds of private family letters, unpublished memoirs, diaries and family papers, Brenda Niall gets to the heart of a uniquely Australian story that spans the twentieth century.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Sunning to right foredge, otherwise in near fine condition. Anne Bonny was eighteen when she ran away from her violent husband, James, into the arms of pirate captain Calico Jack Rackham. Now she's ensconced aboard Jack's ship Ranger, passing as a cabin boy and playing her ruthless part in a crew that is raining down mayhem and murder on the ships of the Caribbean.But James Bonny is willing to pay to get his 'property' back. And pirate-hunter Captain Barnet is happy to take his money. TheRanger's a fast ship- Anne might just be able to outrunBarnet. But can she outrun the consequences of her relationship with Calico Jack? Devil's Ballast is action-packed yet nuanced, culturally relevant and sharp as a cutlass. Based on the true story of Anne Bonny, this novel by the remarkable Meg Caddy brings to life one of history's most fascinating anti-heroines. (back cover).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside front cover. Dust jacket is in good condition with wear to corners and edges. Interior and binding are in very good condition. What if Elizabeth Macarthur, wife of the notorious John Macarthur, a wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney, had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it?

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Australia has undergone a profound change in the nineties. The way we live and think has been influenced by recession, by the theories of economic rationalism, by the fall of Keating and the rise of Howard, by debates about race, the republic, the Holocaust, censorship and euthanasia. In The Way We Live Now, Manne writes powerfully about why bureaucrats and politicians ordered Aboriginal children to be taken from their families. He discusses why politicians tell lies. He debates the nature of Australian history and the fierce arguments over contemporary sexual politics. Not everyone will agree with Robert Manne on every issue, but no one who wants to understand Australia can ignore his clear, passionate and balanced voice.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good to near fine condition. Most minor wear to book corners and edges.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Body text and binding are still very good.Our Shadows tells the story of three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel. Sisters Nell and Frances were raised by their grandparents and were once closely bound by reading and fantasy. Now they live in Sydney, estranged. Each in her own way struggles with the loss of their parents. Little by little, the sisters grow to understand the imaginative force of the past and the legacy of their shared orphanhood. Then Frances decides to make a journey home to the Goldfields to explore what lies hidden and unspoken in their lives, in the shadowy tunnels of the past. (back cover).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Author has signed title page (unverified).A spellbinding meditation on art and life that travels from Eastern Europe to Northern Australia, from World War II to the present. Elegiac and seductive,Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet, where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere.A man seeks out the father figure who shaped his picture of the past. A painter seeks redemption after the disasters of his years in northern Australia. A student of history travels into the depths of religion, the better to escape the demons in his mind. A filmmaker seeks out freedom and open space and looks into the murk and sediment of herself.Four chapters: four journeys through life, separate, yet interwoven as the narrative unfolds.In this entrancing new book from one of our most original writers, we meet European dissidents from the age of postwar communism, artists in remote Australia, snake hunters, opal miners and desert magic healers.Belomoris a meditation on time, and loss: on how the most bitter recollections bring happiness, and the meaning of a secret rests in the thoughts surrounding it. (back cover).