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Tyler-Lewis, Kelly.
THE LOST MEN: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Viking, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to make history by crossing the Antarctic continent. Shackleton's story is legend, but few know the harrowing story of the Ross Sea party, Shackleton's support group dispatched to the other side of the continent to build a lifeline of food and fuel depots to bear his crossing. "I had not anticipated that the work would present any great difficulties, " Shackleton wrote. Yet everything went tragically wrong when the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, tore free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale, leaving ten men marooned with only the clothes on their backs and few provisions. With little…
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New York: Viking, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to make history by crossing the Antarctic continent. Shackleton's story is legend, but few know the harrowing story of the Ross Sea party, Shackleton's support group dispatched to the other side of the continent to build a lifeline of food and fuel depots to bear his crossing. "I had not anticipated that the work would present any great difficulties, " Shackleton wrote. Yet everything went tragically wrong when the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, tore free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale, leaving ten men marooned with only the clothes on their backs and few provisions. With little hope of rescue from a world embroiled in World War I, the men decided to accomplish their mission against all odds." Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-670034126.
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Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Book ID: 66924

Keywords: Arctic, Antarctic and Inuit/ Eskimo peoples, australia, ernest shackleton, exploration

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Winton, Tim.
MINIMUM OF TWO: Stories.

Edition: First US printing.

New York: Atheneum, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this prize-winning Australian author. 153 pp. ISBN: 0-689-11978x.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 38517

Keywords: australia, Australia and New Zealand, short stories

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Winton, Tim.
MINIMUM OF TWO: Stories.

Edition: First US printing.

New York: Atheneum, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this prize-winning Australian author. 153 pp. ISBN: 0-689-11978x.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 35823

Keywords: australia, Australia and New Zealand, short stories

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Womersley, Chris.
BEREFT.

Edition: First US printing.

New York: SilverOak, (2012). Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this award-winning Australian writer. "The year is 1919 and the Great War has ended. Sergeant Quinn Walker - with a damaged body and soul from his wartime experiences - decides to return home to the small and desolate town of Flint, Australia, to set right the past. Ten years earlier, he had fled following the horrific rape and murder of his beloved younger sister Sarah - a crime that everyone, including his family, believed Quinn committed. When he arrives on the outskirts of Flint, Quinn learns the town has not escaped the deadly flu epidemic sweeping the globe." Winner of the Indie award for best Australian novel, nominated for the Miles Franklin award. 235 pp. ISBN: 978-1402798139.

Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Book ID: 75337

Keywords: australia, great war, Historical Fiction, influenza, spanish flu

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