Foreign Aid, Correspondence, Medical, War Zones

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700 DAYS IN EL SALVADOR Michele Gierk - An Australian Woman's Unexpected Journey from Suburbia to Guerilla War

700 Days in El Salvador is very hard to find and looks like compelling reading for anybody into Central America.

Price: AUD $15.00

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A LAND WITHOUT EVIL Stopping the genocide of Burma's Karen People by Benedict Rogers

A hard to find book on the plight of the Karen tribe. This is a used book in good, read condition: pages are clean and ageing lightly; light wear around the edges and corners. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages - the book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - enjoy!

Price: AUD $10.00

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A SINGLE SEED Pheobe Fraser (Foreign Aid - CARE Australia)

Pheobe Fraser's memoir of her aid work with CARE Australia.

Price: AUD $8.00

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AFRICA Blaine Harden - Dispatches from a Fragile Continent

AFRICA: American reporter Blaine Harden gets behind the picture post-card presentation of modern Africa.

Price: AUD $5.00

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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

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ANA'S STORY Jenna Bush - A Journey Of Hope - Based On Her Work With Unicef

The President's daughter follows the life of Ana from Panama who is born with HIV. This book is surprisingly hard to find.

Price: AUD $9.00

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BA ROSE My years in Vietnam 1968-1971 by Iris Mary Roser

A popular memoir by an Australian who volunteered for humanitarian work during the Vietnam War. Book is in good condition with light wear, pages are tanning with age. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!

Price: AUD $8.00

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BAD LANDS Tony Wheeler - A Tourist on the Axis of Evil

Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler travels the worlds 'badlands': Afghanistan, Albania, Burma, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Saudi Arabia. This book is quite hard to find.

Price: AUD $10.00

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BEASTS OF NO NATION by Uzodinma Iweala

A debut novel based on an African child soldier, looks like a compelling read. First UK edition. Book is in excellent condition, near mint, only slight shelf wear and age. See photos for condition, cover blurb and sample pages - enjoy!

Price: AUD $10.00

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BEHIND THE VEIL Lydia Laube - An Australian Nurse in Saudi Arabia

BEHIND THE VEIL: Lydia Laube's classic Saudi Arabia travelogue.

Price: AUD $8.00

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BETWEEN TWO FIRES David Baird - Guerilla War in the Spanish Sierras (Spain)

A rare book on Spanish contemporary history.

Price: AUD $20.00

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BILL BRYSON'S AFRICAN DIARY by Bill Bryson

A scarce little book of observations from Bill Bryson's travels in Africa with Care International.

Price: AUD $7.00

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BOAT PEOPLE by James Eckardt

A rare novel by an excellent Thailand expat writer. Book is in good condition with clean, bright white pages. Cover shows light wear and general age. See photos for cover blurb and condition - enjoy!

Price: AUD $15.00

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CHINA THROUGH THE SLIDING DOOR John Gittings

John Gittings has been reporting on China for 30 years, writing about its remarkable transformation from Maoist communism to a market-led economy. In this journalstic anthology he conveys both the magnitude of this change and its incompleteness - as evidenced by the 1989 Beijing Massacre.

Price: AUD $6.00

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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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DEAD AID Dambisa Moyo - Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa

DEAD AID:In the modern globalized economy, simply handing out more money, however well intentioned, will not help the poorest nations achieve sustainable long-term growth. This title analyses the history of economic development over years and shows how aid crowds out financial and social capital and feeds corruption.

Price: AUD $8.00

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DO TRAVEL WRITERS GO TO HELL? Thomas Kohnstamm (Brazil)

DO TRAVEL WRITERS GO TO HELL? Thomas Kohnstamm's swashbuckling tale of high adventure, questionable ethics and professional hedonism. The author gets a gig as a travel writer covering Brazil.

Price: AUD $8.00

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DOCTOR IN VANUATU Dr Ted Freeman - A Memoir

A scarce memoir of the author's time as a doctor in Vanuatu.

Price: AUD $15.00

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EAST TIMOR TOO LITTLE TOO LATE Lansell Taudevin

EAST TIMOR TOO LITTLE TOO LATE - Lansell Taudevin provides a history of East Timor with the focus on the Indonesian invasion of 1975 and Australia's troubled relationship. The author was in charge of the Australia's major aid project in East Timor from 1996 to 1999 and has travled widely around the island.

Price: AUD $8.00