Secondhand travel books including Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands.
Australia, New Zealand, PNG & Pacific Islands
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THE LONG WHITE CLOUD William Pember Reeves - History of New Zealand
A classic book of early New Zealand history.
Price: AUD $9.00
THE LORD OF THE RINGS LOCATION GUIDEBOOK by Ian Brodie
A scarce book for anybody who wants to track down locations from the films in New Zealand.
Price: AUD $12.00
THE LOST TRIBE by Edward Marriott
This looks like a brilliant read: the author goes in search of the Liawep tribe in Papua New Guinea.
Price: AUD $5.00
THE NATURAL HISTORY FIELD GUIDE OF THE MILFORD TRACK by SG Heppelthwaite
A rare self-published 1989 guide book to flora and fauna of the Milford Track, New Zealand. The photos best describe the book. Book is in good, used condition: shows some wear around the edges, pages are clean with little age and wear. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD $18.00
THE PEOPLE SMUGGLERS Greg Clancy - The People Smuggling Industry and the Secret Cost to Australia
THE PEOPLE SMUGGLERS: the unspoken perils of people smuggling.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE RED HIGHWAY Nicolas Rothwell (Australia)
THE RED HIGHWAY: Nicolas Rothwell explores the deserts and towns, sleepy coastline and hidden worlds of Australia's north.
Price: AUD $10.00
THE RIDE AROUND NEW ZEALAND by Jeremy Burfoot
A rare book about two blokes who rode around New Zealand on Seadoos. Book is in excellent condition, nice and clean and rarely read. Pages are white and clean with some rubbed-out bookseller marks on the first page. See photos for condition, cover blurb and sample pages - enjoy!
Price: AUD $15.00
THE ROCK Barry Hill - Travelling to Uluru (Australia)
The Rock takes the reader to Uluru, or Ayre's Rock, through an exploration of the landscape, the history of the Aborigines and explorers, and the literature of the centre. This text offers another experience of the rock for the traveller who wants to know and do more than just climb the rock.
Price: AUD $10.00
THE SECRET LIFE OF BACKPACKERS A Bunk Eye's View of the Tourist Trail from Bondi to Cairns by Barry Divola (Australia)
A funny read, the author follows the well trodden Australian east coast backpacker trail. This book is quite hard to find.
Price: AUD $14.00
THE SINGING LINE Alice Thomson - Tracking the Australian Adventures of my Intrepid Victorian Ancestors (Australia)
THE SINGING LINE: Alice Thomson travels "the singing line" from Adelaide to Darwin in the footsteps of her great grandfather Charles Todd.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE SONGLINES Bruce Chatwin (Aboriginal Australia)
An absolute classic on Aboriginal Australia and outback travel, highly recommended.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE VIEW FROM PLUTO Stuart Buchanan - A light-hearted rollicking cruise along Queensland's Great Barrier Reef coast (Australia)
The View from Pluto is Stuart Buchanan's account of sailing a yacht from Brisbane to Lizard Island back over six months.
Price: AUD $14.00
THE WHALE RIDER Witi Ihimaera (New Zealand)
The New Zealand novel (fiction) that inspired the film of the same name - 'Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, fights to prove her love, her leadership, and her destiny'.
Price: AUD $10.00
THROWIM WAY LEG Tim Flannery - An Adventure (Papua New Guinea)
THROWIM WAY LEG: A great book on Papua New Guinea. One of my all time faves.
Price: AUD $6.00
TOO LONG IN THE BUSH Len Beadell (Australia)
A scarce and popular book by Len Beadell who is considered Australia's last great explorer.
Price: AUD $8.00
TRANSIT OF VENUS Julian Evans - Travels in the Pacific (South Pacific Islands)
TRANSIT OF VENUS: Julian Evans travels the Pacific Islands.
Price: AUD $8.00
TRIBE WANTED Ben Keene - My Adventure on Paradise or Bust
Tribes Wanted is the fascinating Fiji adventure story of Tribewanted.com, a revolutionary eco-tourism project founded by twentysomething Ben Keene.
Price: AUD $10.00
TROUBLED WATERS Borders, boundaries and possession in the Timor Sea by Ruth Balint
A scarce book on the folks of West Timor and the effects of Australia pushing it's boundaries towards Indonesia and the loss of traditional fishing waters.
Price: AUD $10.00
WATCHED BY ANCESTORS An Australian family in Papua New Guinea
A very hard-to-find PNG memoir, the author spent two years in the remote highlands. Book is in very good condition: clean with light reading wear and age. Owner's name inscribed on first page. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD $15.00
WEST OF CENTRE Ray Ericksen - A Journey of Discovery into the Heartland of Australia (by Land Rover)
In 1967, author Ray Ericksen buys a Land Rover and travels for seven months in the Australian outback.
Price: AUD $8.00
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