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| | 1. |  | In a Sunburned Country
from Random House Audio
Price: $28.73
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Bill Bryson has done it again.
Not only an amusing frolic around and in Australia, but also a very insightful historical dabble into this somewhat forgotten "planet".
Bryson travels by train and car digging up meaningful and significant events from years gone by to present times. Former... more info
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| | 4. |  | The Fatal Shore
from Knopf
Price: $3.90
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I'm not a huge fan of historical non-fiction, but I thought I'd take a chance on this book as my ancestry includes some transported to Australia so I was especially interested. Despite multiple of my best efforts, I never could get more than about a quarter of the way through this book. It seemed... more info
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| | 5. |  | Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee
from Scribner
Price: $2.96
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Tall Man is about the death of Aboriginal Cameron Doomadgee 40 minutes after being taken into police custody. He was beaten to death. The events surrounding his death and the defense of the suspect of murder, a white police officer are at the center of this book along with an underlying analysis of... more info
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| | 7. |  | The Songlines
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $4.94
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The first sentence sounded promising:"In Alice Springs - a grid of scorching streets where men in long white socks were forever getting in and out of Land Cruisers - I met a Russian who was mapping the sacred sites of the Aboriginals." And indeed what follows in the next thirty or so chapters is a... more info
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