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	Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Rider This timeless story tells how the courage of one Maori girl in standing against the tide of tradition enables her people to become reconnected with their ancestral life force. Since publication in 1987, 'The Whale Rider' has become one of Witi Ihimaera's best-loved stories, capturing readers with its universal themes of conflict between generations, respect for nature, family love and personal courage. The film adaptation, 'Whale Rider', brought the story to an international audience. Publisher: Robson ISBN: 1861057040 Published: 2005 Paperback: 152 pages, 190 x 120 mm Price: £6.99


	Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait Islands - Lonely Planet What is the significance of dots in contemporary Aboriginal painting? How many languages were spoken in Australia before colonisation? What did the Mabo and Wik decisions mean? With contributors from more than 50 Indigenous Australians, including Yothu Yindi lead singer Mandawuy Yunupingu, internationally acclaimed writer Herb Wharton and former social justice commissioner Mick Dodson, this guidebook gives an overview of the main issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people today. Use this practical companion guide to find organised tours, festivals, indoor and outdoor art galleries, films, literature, Internet sites and other points where Indigenous people share their culture. Also included are tips and protocols for interacting respectfully with Indigenous people, recommended retailers working with Aboriginal communities and detailed information on the permits required to enter Aboriginal land. In addition to full-colour sections on Indigenous art, bush food and sport, this guide includes more than 40 detailed maps and a fold-out language group map. 'There are many common stereotypes of Aboriginal peoples. One is that we are all the same and conform to the idealized image of the naked Aborigine standing with spear in hand watching the sun set. This is a picture which quickly dissolved into the reality of the 21st century. We are as different as the landscapes of coast, desert, rainforest and snowy mountains. The land is different and so are we, the first peoples of the land.' - Dr Irene Watson, Aboriginal lawyer, writer and activist Publisher: Lonely Planet Authors: Sarina Singh et al. ISBN: 1864501146 Published: 2001, 1st edition Paperback: 448 pages Price: £12.99


	The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture This volume covers the whole art spectrum including photography, sculpture, media, film, performance, rock art, body painting and more. The emphasis is upon visual art, while survey entries on indigenous literature, theatre and music, among other areas, provide a wider context. 'the careful arrangement and linkage of information does what a Companion should; it gives the reader a sense of exploring a vibrant Aboriginal landscape in company with a series of highly articulate guides' - Times Literary Supplement Publisher: OUP Australia and New Zealand Editors: Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale ISBN: 0195506499 Published: 2001 Paperback: 804 pages, 40 colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations, 245 x 190 mm Price: £45.00


	Aboriginal Art For thousands of years Australian Aborigines have been making art. A manifestation of the creative forces of the Dreamtime, art is also a means of expressing individual and group identity. Howard Morphy surveys the great variety in Aboriginal art, showing the interrelationships between such diverse art forms as body painting, dance, the decoration of weapons and utensils, and painting on bark and canvas. Professor Howard Morphy is Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University. Publisher: Phaidon Author: Howard Morphy ISBN: 0714837520 Published: 1998 Paperback: 448 pages, 220 x 160 mm, 240 colour illustrations Price: £14.95


	Aboriginal Myths - Tales of the Dreamtime From acts of creation and the deeds of the Great Spirit, to totemic ancestors and tales explaining natural phenomena, this delightful collection of stories paints a picture of the mystical bond that exists between Aboriginal people, the environment and the spirit life of the Dreamtime. Publisher: New Holland Publishers Author: A. W. Reed ISBN: 1876334142 Published: 1998 Softcover: 128 x 197 mm Price: £7.99


	The Journals of Captain Cook Captain Cook's Journals provide his vivid first-hand account of three extraordinary expeditions. These charted the entire coast of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and brought back detailed descriptions of Tahiti, Tonga and a host of until then unknown islands in the Pacific. The journals amply reveal the determination, courage and skill which enabled Cook to wrestle with the continuous dangers of uncharted seas and the problems of achieving a relationship with the peoples whose unannounced guest he became. This edition, abridged from the four-volume collection published by the Hakluyt Society, makes Cook's inimitable personal account of his nine years of voyaging widely accessible for the first time. The selection preserves the spirit and rhythm of the full narrative, as well as Cook's idiosyncratic spelling. Philip Edwards gives an introduction to each voyage together with maps, a glossary of unusual words and indexes of people and places. A postscript offers a full assessment of the controversies surrounding Cook's death. Publisher: Penguin Classic ISBN: 0140436472 Published: 1999 Paperback: 688 pages Price: £9.99


	Thor Heyerdahl - In the Footsteps of Adam Thor Heyerdahl achieved lasting fame in 1947 sailing the primitive balsa-wood raft 'Kon-Tiki' from Peru to Polynesia. One of the greatest explorers of our day, in this book Thor Heyerdahl has chosen to take a journey through his memories. This is not a chronological autobiography but rather an epic exploration of the world and the amazing events that Heyerdahl has pioneered, participated in and observed. In the Footsteps of Adam is an account of life where personal experiences of a dramatic and emotional nature - secret missions during the war and near-fatal accidents - are woven together with his views on religious fatih, politics and ecology. It is a book that focuses on the author's own remarkable life, and also brings us back to the dawn of civilization and out into the future. Thor Heyerdahl has spent a long lifetime wandering in the footsteps of mankind. He invites the reader to participate in that journey by sharing generously the details of his private and public life, his accumulated wisdom, and his friendships with a wide range of influential world leaders such as Fidel Castro and Mikhail Gorbachev. - 'A compelling compendium of adventure, history and philosophy by a man who knows arguably as much about the planet as anyone alive' - Scotsman Publisher: Abacus ISBN: 0349112738 Published: 2001 Paperback: 352 pages Price: £8.99


	Beginner's Maori Whether you are planning a trip to New Zealand, or interested in Maori language and culture, this book will be of good use. It covers the concrete language skills needed for basic conversation in Maori. A brief grammar as well as a short vocabulary are included. Author: K. T. Harawira Publisher: Hippocrene ISBN: 0781806054 Published: 2001 Paperback: 120 pages Price: £7.50


	Pacific Designs Pacific Designs presents a rich collection of designs drawn from the varied heritage of the Pacific cultures, including those of Australia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia. The illustrations are carefully researched and based on close observation of many types of artefacts from pottery and wood carving to textiles, whilst the introduction describes the history of the peoples of Oceania. Publisher: British Museum Publications Author: Rebecca Jewell ISBN: 0714180769 Published: 1998 Paperback: 128 pages, 276 x 219 mm, 300 black and white illustrations Price: £9.99


	Gauguin Click picture to look inside After starting a career as a bank broker, Paul Gauguin (born 1848) turned to painting only at age twenty-five. After initial successes within the Impressionist circle, he broke with Vincent van Gogh and subsequently, when private difficulties caused him to become restless, embarked on a peripatetic life, wandering first through Europe and finally, in the search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature, to Tahiti. The paintings created from this time to his death in 1903 brought him posthumous fame. Gauguin was able to convey the magical effect that both the landscapes and life of the people - their body language, charm and beauty - had on him. Wearying of his reputation as a South Sea painter, Gauguin finally determined to return to France, but died of syphilis on the Marquis Islands before his departure. Author: Ingo F. Walther Publisher: Taschen ISBN: 3822859869 Published: 2000 Softcover: 185 x 230 mm, 96 pages Price: £4.99


	Mario Vargas Llosa - The Way to Paradise One of the Latin America's most important authors, Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936 and educated at university in Lima, where he studied Humanities and Law. Later, a scholarship took him to Madrid and, having gained his PhD, he moved to Paris for the next eighteen years. He returned to Lima in 1974. 'In Mario Vargas Llosa's latest novel there are two stories - that of Paul Gauguin, the Post-Impressionist painter, and that of Paul Gauguin's grandmother, Flora Tristan...what makes the novel so illuminating is the continuity between their parallel lives...the novel is highly accomplished and teems with characters, ideas and incident - Gauguin and Flora may have thought they were masters of their own destiny, but this novel powerfully suggests that even that may have been an illusion - like paradise itself' - Literary Review 'Vargas Llosa's storytelling gifts are pretty much unrivalled, and they don't desert him this time either. His recreation of the tactile, sensuous, brilliant, whiffy details of the everyday is superb...a fabulously abundant book' - Financial Times, London 'The Way to Paradise weaves an extraordinarily rich double fantasia around Gauguin's life, strenuously explores qualities in the works, and sets moral issues in a far wilder, more real historical world...riveting stuff, beautifully written, wild, exact, and visually stunning' - The Independent, UK Publisher: Faber and Faber ISBN: 057122038X Published: 2004 Paperback: 432 pages Price: £7.99

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