Still in Summer Mode in Western Australia
A short description of a visit to Kings Park, Perth during January The day before Australia Day, 2001, my wife and I spent a few hours in Kings Park and the Botanic Garden, Perth, Western Australia. We had just spent a few days in Fremantle, and ... [... more]
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Birds of Australia
 Peterson Down Under: This book never left my side while I was in Oz, although at times I thought about leaving it behind. My biggest complaint would be size; this book is a bit too large to be a proper field guide. It is as thick as Nat'l Geo, but about [... more]
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Rough Guide Map Australia 1e
This Book is So So: Here is the situation. Go to the book store and there are 100 to 200 books on Australia. I have about five or six of them. This book leaves me a bit cold. Here is the good part. It is a large and comprehensive guide to Australia. The [... more]
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A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
A "European experiment": The founding of European Australia has suffered \oand survived\c a wide variety of accounts. Why should another be necessary? Chiefly, because few of those histories approach the level of human interest given that event [... more]
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A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
A "European experiment": The founding of European Australia has suffered \oand survived\c a wide variety of accounts. Why should another be necessary? Chiefly, because few of those histories approach the level of human interest given that event [... more]
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Triumph Of The Nomads : A History of Aboriginal Australia
They went about as far as they could go: Almost any other book on Australia's Aborigines that you can find will be an anthropological description of Aboriginal life as seen in its declining years or modern Aboriginal problems in the 20th century. Some [... more]
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Culture Shock! Australia: A Survival Guide to Customs ...
Not at all what I expected: I don't find this book very helpful in general. I am very disappointed in the content. Fascinating. I loved it.: This book gave a feel for life in Australia. It is fascinating. "Customs and Etiquette" are more [... more]
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A Garden in the Hills Around Perth, in Western Australia
A short piece about April in the garden in Western Australia. March this year has not been very kind to gardeners around this area. There have been a few small and very short showers, but that is all. Many gardening books say that March heralds a ... [... more]
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The Trees in the Suburbs around Perth, Western Australia
This piece describes a few of the trees to be found in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. I suppose because of, or perhaps in spite of, the arguments between conservationists and the loggers in the South West of Western Australia my mind ... [... more]
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The Ornamental Plant Conservation Association of Australia
The OPCAA (Ornamental Plant Conservation Association of Australia, Inc.) was formed about 14 ago by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, after they carried out a survey of plant cultivars growing in Victoria. As part of the survey a list was ... [... more]
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The Month of June in Western Australia - will it bring ...
A brief description of conditions for planting and care of garden in Western Australia at the beginning of June. Sorry to keep harping on about the rain, but we have already been warned by the Minister for Water Resources that there is more than ... [... more]
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Water in a part of the Western edge of Australia
In parts of Western Australia the 1998 rainfall has been below the average. In fact, over the past few years the rainfall has been pretty low. Gardners are again going to be asked to take practical steps to conserve water. In certain parts of ... [... more]
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