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Edité par Random House Australia, US, 2007
ISBN 10 : 1741661552ISBN 13 : 9781741661552
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Etat : Good. Georgie, Kia, Micki, and Ace are thrown together at an elite girls' surfing camp. At first they are not friends, as jealousy, insecurity, secrets, and lies abound. Yet they soon realize that their friendship brings out the be st in each of them. But will it be too late to make the grade at the camp?.
Edité par Random House - Australia, US, 2008
ISBN 10 : 0385614543ISBN 13 : 9780385614542
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Paperback. Etat : Good. "All men dream, but not equally," wrote Lawrence of Arabia. "Those who drea m at night awaken to find it vanity, but the dreamers of the day are danger ous men." Reeling from the twin tragedies of the Great War and the influe nza epidemic, diffident, 40-year-old teacher, Agnes Shanklin has come into a modest inheritance; enough to allow her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. But her arrival in Cairo coincides with an event that will change history. For it is 1921, and the Cairo Peace Conference wi ll preside over nothing less than the creation of the modern Middle East. N either a pawn nor a participant, Agnes becomes a welcome sounding board for the historic players - including Churchill, T. E. Lawrence and Lady Gertru de Bell - poised to invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jor dan and so decide the fate of the Arab world. It also makes her unexpectedl y attractive to the charismatic German spy, Karl Weilbacher.As Agnes observ es the tumult and tensions of nation-building, she is drawn more and more d eeply into geopolitical intrigue and towards a personal awakening. Both enl ightening and entertaining, this compelling, passionately felt novel illumi nates both the rich history of the Middle East and what lies behind today's headlines.
Edité par Random House Australia, US, 2014
ISBN 10 : 0857984055ISBN 13 : 9780857984050
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Hardback. Etat : Very Good/Very Good. A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, refere ndums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental romances, the sensual and bountiful beauty of Brisbane, the mysterious offe rings of Queenslander houses, and leaving home. The idea of a nation and th e heart of its people. Being Australian and Australia's relationship to the world. Putting ourselves on the map. All these subjects, and more, are exp lored from the generous, questioning and original perspective of David Malo uf. At the heart of these pieces is the idea of home, where and what it is. What they illustrate is the formation of a man, an Australian and one of t he best writers this country has produced.
Edité par Random House Australia, US, 1989
ISBN 10 : 086824645XISBN 13 : 9780868246451
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Etat : Very Good.
Edité par Random House Australia, US, 2007
ISBN 10 : 1741667232ISBN 13 : 9781741667233
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
Livre
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "A vision of Japan as you have never imagined it. A brilliant and moving no vel about displacement and belonging by the award-winning author of Sixty L ights and Five Bells." "A vision of Japan as you have never imagined it. A brilliant and moving novel about displacement and belonging by the award-winning author of Sixty Lights and Five Bells. She wished to study the unremarked beauty of modern things, of telephones, aeroplanes, computer screens and electric lights, of television, cars and underground transportation. There had to be in the world of mechanical efficiency some mystery of transaction, the summoning of remote meanings, an extra dimension - supernatural, sure. There had to be a lost sublimity, of something once strange, now familiar, tame. We must talk, Alice Black, about this world of modern things. This buzzing world." Alice is entranced by the aesthetics of technology and, in every aeroplane flight, every Xerox machine, every neon sign, sees the poetry of modernity. Mr Sakamoto, a survivor of the atomic bomb, is an expert on Alexander Graham Bell. Like Alice, he is culturally and geographically displaced. The pair forge an unlikely friendship as Mr Sakamoto regales Alice with stories of twentieth-century invention. His own knowledge begins to inform her writing, and these two solitary beings be.
Edité par Random House Australia, US, 2008
ISBN 10 : 1741666430ISBN 13 : 9781741666434
Vendeur : Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japon
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Etat : Good. 'Occy was always a missile going hyperspeed, about to blow up at any moment . - it's true of so many highly intelligent or gifted people . . . All of h is passion was put into his surfing.' Kelly Slater, eight-time world champi on Child star at sixteen, ranked third in the world at seventeen, winner of the Pipeline Masters at nineteen - Mark Occhilupo looked set to sweep all before him with a radical, spontaneous, irresistible brand of surfing. Yet a spiralling descent into drug abuse and depression snuffed his flame out p rematurely when he quit the pro tour at just twenty-two. Faltered comebacks , spectacular bursts of free-surfing and manic breakdowns followed, as the surfing world watched a freakish talent self-combust. After years spent imm obile and overweight on the couch, in his so-called 'Elvis period', Occy ev entually emerged from his cocoon, reborn and ready to tackle a whole new ge neration of surf stars. His celebrated comeback to win the world title in 1 999, sixteen years after his career began, is a sporting fairytale without equal. Now for the first time, in his own words, Occy tells the complete, r emarkable story of his spectacular rise, terrifying fall and miraculous reb irth. 'By going down so hard, by fully falling apart, he was able to give h imself longevity. It's like the Buddhist teachings about birth and death - something has to die for new birth to happen, and that happens inside us to o. Occy was the ultimate example of that.' Tom Carroll. 'I think it's one o f the great sports stories of all time.' Kelly Slater.