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Australia : journey through a timeless land / by Roff Smith ; photographs by Sam Abell.
LIBRA - Rare DU105.2 .S55 1999 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Roff.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australia--Description and travel.
- Australia.
- Travel.
- Local Subjects:
- Australia--Description and travel.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [©1999]
- Summary:
- Full-color photographs depict all sides of Australia: its urban and rural landscapes, its wildlife, its sealife, its sixty-thousand-year-old Aboriginal culture, and the rest of its society.
- Contents:
- The far north. Essay: the aboriginal struggle for land, life, and culture / Frank Brennan, S.J.
- The outback
- The golden west. Essay: a unique flora and fauna / John Landy
- The southern shores
- Tasmania: the other Australia
- The heritage coast. Essay: a land of immigrants / Geoffrey Sherington
- A golden land. Essay: a sports-mad country / Harry Gordon.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 303) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Smith, Roff Martin. Australia.
- ISBN:
- 0792275780
- 9780792275787
- 0792275799
- 9780792275794
- OCLC:
- 41338028
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