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Oceania
Oceania (sometimes Oceanica) is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Dumont d'Urville. The term is used today in many languages to denote a continent...
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Typee
Typee (1846; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on Nuku Hiva (which Melville spelled as Nukuheva) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands and...
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- 1846
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- Feb 26, 1846
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- 21279
Island
Island (ISBN 0-06-008549-5) is the final book by English writer Aldous Huxley, published in 1962. It is the account of Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who is shipwrecked on the fictional island of Pala. Island is Huxley's utopian counterpart to...
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- 1962
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- 17419
Omoo
Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny...
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The Songlines
The Songlines is a 1986 book written by Bruce Chatwin, combining fiction and non-fiction. Chatwin describes a trip to Australia which he has taken for the express purpose of researching Aboriginal song and its connections to nomadic travel....
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- 1987
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Coming of Age in Samoa
Coming of Age in Samoa is a book by Margaret Mead based upon youth in Samoa and lightly relating to youth in America, first published in 1928. In the foreword to Coming of Age in Samoa, Mead's advisor, Franz Boas, wrote of its significance that
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by the Irish-born English author Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. In 1765 Laurence Sterne travelled through France and Italy as far south as...
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- 1768
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific is a 2004 travelogue by author J. Maarten Troost describing the two years he and his girlfriend spent living on the Tarawa atoll in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. In the book...
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The Far Side of the World
The Far Side of the World (1984) is an historical novel and tenth in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It was first published by HarperCollins in 1984. The novel provided part of the title and some of plot-structure for the 2003 Peter Weir film, Master and...
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- 1984
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Getting Stoned with Savages
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu is a 2007 travel book by J. Maarten Troost. The book is a funny account of the author and his wife's time on the Pacific Island Nations of Vanuatu and Fiji. Similar to...
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Down Under
Down Under is a 2000 travelogue book about Australia written by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. In the United States it was published entitled In a Sunburned Country, ISBN 0-552-99703-X. It was also published as Walk About, which included...
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- 1999
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- 26077
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before is a book by Tony Horwitz. In it, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist travels to parts of the world once explored by James Cook.
Published by Henry Holt and Company
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- 2002
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 is a book by Nathaniel Philbrick.
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- 2003
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Under the mountain wall
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One for the Road
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Into the blue
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A Land of Two Halves
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Faery lands of the South Seas
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New lives for old
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Farther than any man
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Lonely Vigil
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From Alice to ocean
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The Red Shoe
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A Brief History of Mutiny
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Australia Trip Planner and Guide
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Top to bottom down under
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Beyond the Coral Sea
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Recognizing Aboriginal title
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Seven days to remember
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The Hoser files
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Grass roots.
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Lucky City
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The Switherby Pilgrims
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The Long White Cloud
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Scars on the heart
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Australia
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My farm
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Cultural liberalism in Australia
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The packaging of Australia
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About face
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