The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History
If you like book The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonThe Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History similar books
-
Wake in Fright
Filmed as The Outback
Buy this book on Amazon
Wake In Fright was first published in 1961 and the film version, The Outback, starring Donald Pleasance was released in 1971. Both the book and the film have achieved a cult statu… -
A Clockwork Orange
In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of yo…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Time Is a Mother
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to sur…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense …
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and D…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Making It So
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart!
Buy this book on Amazon
From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Pat… -
The Old Man and the Sea
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here
Buy this book on Amazon
This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marli… -
In a Sunburned Country
It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents, and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Aust…
Buy this book on Amazon -
On Beauty
This wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whos…
Buy this book on Amazon -
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - t…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts …
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-
The War of the Worlds
When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780140621334
Buy this book on Amazon
"We agree that we are overworked, and need a rest - A week on the rolling deep? - George suggests the river -"
And with the co-operation of seve… -
Elon Musk
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who h…
Buy this book on Amazon -
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron w…
Buy this book on Amazon -
A Confederacy of Dunces
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one, who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age, lying in his flan…
Buy this book on Amazon