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A BEDOUIN BOYHOOD Isaak Diqs (Jordan \ Saudia Arabia)
A scarce Middle Eastern memoir.
Price: AUD $8.00
A LEAF IN THE BITTER WIND Ting-Xing Ye - A Memoir (China)
A LEAF IN THE BITTER WIND: Ting-Xing Ye's memoir of China during the cultural revolution.
Price: AUD $5.00
A TALENT FOR TOMORROW Suzanne Gordon - Life Stories of South African Servants (Africa)
A TALENT FOR TOMORROW is a scarce book of biographies of twenty-three servants from South Africa.
Price: AUD $14.00
A THOUSAND COLOURED DREAMS Josephine Abaijah - The Story of a Young Girl Growing Up in Papua (Papua New Guinea - PNG)
A THOUSAND COLOURED DREAMS is Josephine Abaijah's dramatised memoir. Josphine was the first woman Papua New Guinea House of Assembly and founder/leader of Papua Besena which seeked Papuan independance from New Guinea.
Price: AUD $15.00
A WAVERING GRACE Gavin Young - A Vietnamese Family in War and Peace (Vietnam)
A WAVERING GRACE: legendary travel writer Gavin Young's history of Madame Bong and her relatives, which reveals the realities of the Vietnam War.
Price: AUD $8.00
A WILD HERB SOUP Emilie Carles - The Life of a French Countrywoman (France)
A WILD HERB SOUP is the popular memoir of Emilie Carles, born in 1900 into a poor peasant community in the High Alps of southeastern France.
Price: AUD $6.00
AMONG THE WHITE MOONFACES Memoirs of a Nonya Feminist by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Malaysia. Very hard to find. Good condition with clean white pages. Mild reading wear to edges and corners. See photos for cover blurb and condition.
Price: AUD $9.00
AN ORDINARY MAN Paul Ruseabagina with Paul Zoellner - The True Story Behind 'Hotel Rwanda'
The autobiography of the man whose exceptional courage inspired the Oscar nominated film, Hotel Rwanda.
Price: AUD $8.00
AUNG SAN SUU KYI THE VOICE OF HOPE Conversations with Alan Clements (Burma \ Myanmar)
AUNG SAN SUU KYI has suffered constant harrassment and abuse from the Burmese authorities, but she is still determined to continue her struggle for human rights and democracy. This is a collection of 12 interviews conducted by American journalist and former Buddhist monk, Alan Clements.
Price: AUD $8.00
AUSTRALIAN MANDARIN Robert Travers - The Life and Times of Quong Tart (Australia/China)
AUSTRALIAN MANDARIN: a very popular and sought-after biography of Quong Tart, a fascinating Chinese character from colonial Sydney.
Price: AUD $10.00
BONES OF THE MASTER George Crane - A Journey to Secret Mongolia
A scarce book on Mongolia. Having fled Red Army troops in 1959, monk Tsung Tsai persuades his American neighbor--40 years later--to travel with him back to his birthplace at the edge of the Gobi desert. Their search takes them from frontier towns, mud villages, and lost temples to a remote mountain cave and deep into the heart of zen.
Price: AUD $10.00
BRUCE CHATWIN Nicholas Shakespeare
A biography of legendary travel writer Bruce Chatwin.
Price: AUD $8.00
BWANA GAME George Adamson - The Life Story of George Adamson (Africa)
BWANA GAME: an autobiography of the African lion conservationist, best known from Born Free. A scarce hardcover first edition.
Price: AUD $10.00
CAPTAIN SCOTT by Ranulph Fiennes
A large and scarce book in good condition with very little reading wear. Pages are nice and clean with a little age. A nice book. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages - enjoy!
Price: AUD $12.00
CAVE IN THE SNOW Vicki Mackenzie - A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment
Diane Perry converted to Buddhism and secluded herself in a remote cave in India for twelve years on intense meditation.
Price: AUD $9.00
CHANCE IS A FINE THING Philip Temple - A Memoir by Writer, Mountaineer, Campaigner, Explorer and Historian
Chance is a Fine Thing is a scarce memoir by Philip Temple, traveller and explorer.
Price: AUD $9.00
CHILD OF THE REVOLUTION Luis M. Garcia - Growing Up In Castro's Cuba
A scarce Cuban memoir.
Price: AUD $10.00
CHING CHONG CHINA GIRL Helene Chung - From Fruitshop to Foreign Correspondence (Australia / China)
CHING CHONG CHINA GIRL: Australian-born Chinese Helene Chung's autobiography, tracing her childhood in 1950's Tasmania to becoming the first non-white reporter on Australian TV and a foreign correspondent. This book is quite hard to find.
Price: AUD $15.00
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