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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Come On Shore and We Will Kill And Eat You All is a sensitive and vibrant portrayal of the cultural collision between Westerners and Maoris, from Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 to the author's unlikely romance with a Maori man. An intimate account of two centuries of friction and fascina ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 33 - Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom by Guy Pearse; Gavin Kitching (Contribution by); Christina Thompson (Contribution by)
$16.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Australia's response to climate change must truly baffle outsiders. Why do our leaders pretend that they are leading the world in the battle against global warming? When do environmental risks outweigh economic benefits? Why dig deeper when the rest of the world is looking for alternatives to coal? This ...Show more
Sea People - The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
`Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan `Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude For more than a millennium, Polynesians occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, an enormous triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand t ...Show more
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the World. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remote ...Show more
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