Catálogo de libros Historia De Australasia Y El Pacífico

Elise Baker

The Second World War changed the course of modern history. It is filled with incredible stories of daring risks and exceptional struggles, but in the popular imagination, these stories are more often than not the stories of men. There is, however, a hidden treasure trove of untold stories of heroic women who have risked their lives in the monumental battle against fascism. We’v...

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9,96 €

Dicionário De Mitologia Maia E Asteca

Lenin Soares

Os povos da América, antes da invasão europeia, eram grandes civilizações que deixaram um imenso legado para a história do mundo, contudo, esse conhecimento tem sido pouco pesquisado e ainda menos divulgado especialmente aqui no Brasil. Este livro tenta apresentar a mitologia dos povos maias e astecas numa primeira tentativa de divulgação destes mitos e da história dos povos am...

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15,29 €

The Great New Zealand Road Trip

Roger Mancey

Grandad Roger can’t wait to share his epic road trip around New Zealand with you, a land with purple possums, friendly hobbits, and spiders who can fly! Join him as he tastes a peculiar collection of tomato sauces, an assortment of extreme ice creams, and plenty of good old fish and chips. And discover the truth about all those sheep and the little penguins who like to climb ev...

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12,84 €

Beachmere Revisited

Karen Wallwork

In 2019, Karen Wallwork had an idea that grew into a guided walk around the seaside town of Beachmere. Who could have guessed that this simple plan would lead to the publication of 'Beachmere - Then and Now; 150 years of collective memory', and the 'Back to Beachmere' Festival? Nor did Karen expect the flood of new stories and memories that would follow. Beachmere demanded a s...

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47,03 €

The Long Road To Grafton

Tracy P. Rockwell

The Pacific was the last of the oceans to be explored, a vast area of water dotted with islands, the least known, yet the most romantic. Out of that great ocean appeared an inconspicous vessel called the 'Eclair,' which entered Port Jackson on the 23rd September 1851 and sailed slowly up Sydney Harbour, before dropping anchor in Neutral Bay. The small 50 ton schooner had sailed...

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60,98 €

Island Jewels

Andrew A Burbidge / Ian Abbott

Western Australia has over 3,500 islands, the largest number of any Australian state or territory. All remain in public ownership; almost all south of the Kimberley are managed by a single government agency, whilst almost all Kimberley islands are native title; a situation unique in the world.This book, written by two experienced wildlife scientists, documents the islands’ plan...

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89,73 €

Four Rivers Deep maps

The cities - Perth, Australia, and Aberdeen, Scotland - have received relatively little attention as specific geographical-cultural locales. Often perceived as industrial, isolated and lacking romantic association, they nevertheless have rich historical, narrative and creative traditions that characterise interactions between humans and place, particularly along the length of t...

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28,86 €

Misadventures in Nature’s Paradise

Andrew Viduka / Graeme Henderson / Robert de Hoop

Misadventures in Nature’s Paradise explores the earliest history of Australia’s Indian Ocean territories of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island. Seafarers from Africa, the Middle East and Asia developed trade routes across the northern Indian Ocean. The first Europeans venturing eastward relied on local pilots, some of whom had travelled southward, collecting natur...

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39,00 €

Better Than Balderdash

Owen Janssen

Did you know that you can heat up a cup of coffee by yelling at it? How about the fact that bananas are radioactive? Or that Google hires goats as gardeners? Or that competitive slapping is a sport in Russia? Our world is chock-full of fascinating facts, unbelievable but true stories, and mind-blowing trivia. This book is your one-stop guide to all the extraordinary, shocking a...

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14,13 €

Nereis Australis, Or Algae of the Southern Ocean

William Henry Harvey

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...

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37,38 €

Christianity and Civilization in The South Pacific, The Influence of Missionaries

W. Allen Young

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20,09 €

Geology of New Zealand

A Petermann / Ferdinand Von Hochstetter

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20,24 €

Travels in New Zealand

Ernst Dieffenbach

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41,50 €

Madeira

W. H. Koebel

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39,57 €

Steam in the Southern Pacific

Will Lawson

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35,64 €

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition

Charles Wilkes

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29,87 €

Western Pacific

Charles Morris Woodford

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29,59 €

A Burglar’s Life; or, The Stirring Adventures of the Great English Burglar Mark Jeffrey; a Thrilling History of the Dark Days of Convictism in Australia

J E Heiner / James Lester Burke / W Heiner

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33,76 €

An Account Of The Pelew Islands

George Keate / Henry Wilson

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26,92 €

Northmost Australia; Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in and Around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, With a Study of the Narratives of all Explorers by sea and Land in the

Robert Logan Jack

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27,91 €

Hawaii and a Revolution

Mary Hannah Krout

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27,09 €

Tenerife and Its Six Satellites

Olivia M. Stone

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29,78 €

Letters and Notes Written During the Disturbances in the Highlands (Known As the 'Devil County') of Viti Levu, Fiji, 1876; Volume 2

Baron Arthur Hamilton-Gordon Stanmore

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39,57 €

Scenes, Incidents, And Adventures In The Pacific Ocean

Thomas Jefferson Jacobs

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39,43 €

The Story Of Te Waharoa

John Alexander Wilson

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Sheep Breeding In Australia, Containing An Historical Sketch Of The Merino Sheep

George A. Brown

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A Fijian and English and an English and Fijian Dictionary;

James 1813-1892 ed Calvert / David d. 1855 Hazlewood

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The Narrative Of A Voyage Of Discovery, Performed In His Majesty’s Vessel The Lady Nelson, Of Sixty Tons Burthen

James Grant

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Sheep Breeding In Australia, Containing An Historical Sketch Of The Merino Sheep

George A. Brown

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Discoveries in Australia

John Lort Stokes

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Historia de Australasia y el Pacífico

Humanidades / Historia / Historia regional y nacional / Historia de Australasia y el Pacífico (3794)