Best Bush, Town and Village Walks Around the ACT


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This is the second book in the Best Walks in Canberra series, following on from the second edition of Canberra's Best Bush, Park & City Walks. Best Bush, Town and Village Walks Around the ACT offers more walks away from the centre of Canberra, with the added bonus of walks in towns and villages across the border. Canberra is the best served of any ......




Canberra's Best Bush, Park and City Walks 3/e


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Canberra and the ACT are perfect for exploring on foot. This book details 40 of the best walks, from fascinating city walks and leisurely lake-side strolls to more rugged bush tracks. Over 150 full-colour photos, detailed descriptions and accurate maps help you explore the region's parks, bushland, lakes, rivers and most interesting urban areas.







Discovering The Colo Wilderness on Foot


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The Colo Wilderness is a rugged forested area north of the Blue Mountains, containing dramatic gorges with towering cliffs, massive boulders and sandy beaches. This book includes descriptions of twenty walks in the southern half of Wollemi National Park, to guide keen bushwalkers through this unique area, and enliven their sense of adventure and wonder.




Coastal New South Wales and the ACT Rough Guides Snapshot Australia (includes Canberra, the Snowy Mountains, Byron Bay, plus Lord Howe and the Norfolk Islands)


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The Rough Guide Snapshot to Coastal New South Wales and the ACT is the ultimate travel guide to this varied part of Australia. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, whether you're exploring historic Canberra or kicking back in stylish Byron Bay, skiing in the Snowy Mountains or wildlife-spotting on Lord Howe Island. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Australia, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around Australia, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, entry requirements and outdoor activities. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to Australia. Full coverage: the ACT, Canberra, the south coast, the Snowy Mountains, Myall Lakes National Park, Barrington Tops, Port Macquarie, the Bellinger Region, Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Ballina, Byron Bay, and Lord Howe and Norfolk islands. (Equivalent printed page extent 112 pages).




We Have Always Lived in the Castle


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We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.




Australian Alps Walking Track


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Describes the 660 km walking track from Walhalla near Melbourne to the outskirts of Canberra. An all colour book, it includes 51 colour topographic maps, gradient profiles and many sidetrips and alternative tracks.




The Law Reports


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Seeing Like a State


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“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University




A Long Walk to Water


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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.