Culture & Anthropology

Culture & Anthropology
Used Travel books on culture and anthropology.

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THE NEW ITALIANS Charles Richards See photos & details
THE NEW ITALIANS Charles Richards
An interesting looking book on Italian life.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Lotte Hughes (Worldwide) See photos & details
THE NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Lotte Hughes (Worldwide)
The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples looks beyond the exotic images, tracing the story of different indigenous peoples from their first contact with explorers and colonisers to the present day.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE SARONG (SINGAPORE) PARTY GIRL by Jim Aitchison and Theseus Chan See photos & details
THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE SARONG (SINGAPORE) PARTY GIRL by Jim Aitchison and Theseus Chan
A very funny and scarce illustrated book about a certain breed of Singapore ladies popular with expatriate gents. Book is in good condition: clean and aging lightly, some reading wear to cover and corners. Not mint but a good reading copy. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD $9.00
THE PASSAGE OF TIME Hu Siu Ing (Indonesia) See photos & details
THE PASSAGE OF TIME Hu Siu Ing (Indonesia)
A scarce Indonesian family history from the 1920s to the 1970s, revealing the lives of middle class Indonesian Chinese.
Price: AUD $15.00
THE PRICE OF A DREAM The Story of the Grameen Bank by David Bornstein See photos & details
THE PRICE OF A DREAM The Story of the Grameen Bank by David Bornstein
A scarce and interesting look at the Grameem Bank which offers small loans to women so they can develop small businesses. This is a used book in good, read, ageing condition: pages are clean and tanning with age; cover has a few creases and general wear; light corner wear. A bit worn but perfectly readable and hard to find. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD $8.00
THE RAINSTICK PACK Nick Calstor Explore the Mysteries and Traditions of Native Chilean Culture See photos & details
THE RAINSTICK PACK Nick Calstor Explore the Mysteries and Traditions of Native Chilean Culture
A fun book on ye olde Chilean culture. This was originally part of a pack including a Chilean rainstick but alas I don't have the rainstick.
Price: AUD $5.00
THE SHORE BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL Hideyuki Takano - A Report From Inside Burma's Opium Kingdom See photos & details
THE SHORE BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL Hideyuki Takano - A Report From Inside Burma's Opium Kingdom
The Shore Beyond Good and Evil looks like a fascinating looking read: author and adventurer Hideyuki Takano spends seven months in a mountain village for the complete cycle of opium production.
Price: AUD $15.00
THE SONGLINES Bruce Chatwin (Aboriginal Australia) See photos & details
THE SONGLINES Bruce Chatwin (Aboriginal Australia)
An absolute classic on Aboriginal Australia and outback travel, highly recommended.
Price: AUD $8.00
THE WHALE RIDER Witi Ihimaera (New Zealand) See photos & details
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
THE WORLD FROM ISLAM George Negus - A Journey of Discovery Through the Muslim Heartland (Middle East) See photos & details
THE WORLD FROM ISLAM George Negus - A Journey of Discovery Through the Muslim Heartland (Middle East)
George Negus has travelled extensively throughout the Middle East for twenty-five years. In the World from Islam he the misconceptions and prejudice that have set the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds against each other.
Price: AUD $10.00
THROWIM WAY LEG Tim Flannery - An Adventure (Papua New Guinea) See photos & details
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
TO LHASA AND BEYOND Giuseppe Tucci See photos & details
TO LHASA AND BEYOND Giuseppe Tucci
This book is very hard to find and looks like an amazing read. The author travelled Tibet in 1949 prior to the Chinese upheavals. Imagine that!
Price: AUD $12.00
TROUBLED WATERS Borders, boundaries and possession in the Timor Sea by Ruth Balint See photos & details
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
TRUE SINGAPORE GHOST STORIES Russell Lee & Team of Ghost Writers BOOK 1 See photos & details
TRUE SINGAPORE GHOST STORIES Russell Lee & Team of Ghost Writers BOOK 1
More than 70 true Singaporean ghost stories. Book one in a series of twenty, these are very popular in Singapore.
Price: AUD $10.00
TRYST WITH DESTINY Free India's First Half-Century by Paul R Dettman See photos & details
TRYST WITH DESTINY Free India's First Half-Century by Paul R Dettman
A scarce book in good condition with ljust a little reading wear, bright white clean pages. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!
Price: AUD $8.00
TSUKIJI Theodore C Bestor - The Fish Market at the Center of the World (Tokyo / Japan) See photos & details
TSUKIJI Theodore C Bestor - The Fish Market at the Center of the World (Tokyo / Japan)
TSUKIJI: a scarce book on Tokyo's infamous Tsukiji Fish Market.
Price: AUD $10.00
TWICE A STRANGER Bruce Clark - How mass expulsion forged modern Greece and Turkey See photos & details
TWICE A STRANGER Bruce Clark - How mass expulsion forged modern Greece and Turkey
A scarce modern history book.
Price: AUD $9.00
TWO LIPSTICKS AND A LOVER Helena Frith Powell - Unlock Your Inner French Woman (France) See photos & details
TWO LIPSTICKS AND A LOVER Helena Frith Powell - Unlock Your Inner French Woman (France)
TWO LIPSTICKS AND A LOVER: Why is it that French women look just as glamorous in a T-shirt and pair of jeans as in a sleek designer dress? How do they look sexy, chic and timelessly elegant from eighteen to eighty? In search of answers, travel and lifestyle journalist investigates the famous French je ne sais quoi.
Price: AUD $6.00
UGLY JAPAN UGLY AMERICANS Min Byoung-Chui & Nevitt Reagan See photos & details
UGLY JAPAN UGLY AMERICANS Min Byoung-Chui & Nevitt Reagan
A rare etiquette guide published in Japan.
Price: AUD $8.00
UNDERGROUND The Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami See photos & details
UNDERGROUND The Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
I read this book a while ago and found it to be a fascinating look at the aum cult and the sarin subway gas attacks as well as Japanese culture in general. This is a used hardcover book in good condition: nice and clean with light edge wear to dust jacket; pages are clean and aging lightly; a few age spots on top edge of book. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD $10.00
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