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Description not available.The author charts Captain Cook's legendary voyage of exploration and examines his place in history as the discoverer of Australia, looking at evidence that the Portuguese may have stumbled upon Australia more than a century earlier.
PUBLISHER: Globe Pequot Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Things You Get for Free by Michael McGirr
In this memoir/travelogue, Michael McGinn, an Australian Jesuit, spends his six-week vacation touring Europe with his Mum. Their destinations (Paris, Rome, London, etc.) are made unique by McGinn`s insights and by his reflections on his own life and on the history that he and his mother encounter along the way. AUTHOR: Michael McGirr
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
Description not available.Featuring three hundred new additions, an updated edition of the classic film reference provides more than 1,300 entries on leading international actors and actresses, directors, and producers, along with frequently provocative critical essays, profiles, and film analyses. 15,000 first printing. AUTHOR: David Thomson
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Henry IV, part 1 by Alan Durband, Barbara Hodgdon, Barbara A. Mowat, David M. Bevington, Paul Werstine
While King Henry IV rightly laments that his heir, the young Prince Hal, has not distinguished himself in battle, Hal is up to no good at the Boar's Head Tavern with his rotund cohort, Falstaff. With a rebellion rising against the throne at home, Hal lives it up in the ale houses of London, associating with petty schemers and masterminding practical jokes instead of military strategies. When his father sends a messenger to fetch his delinquent son, will Hal rally to the call? Written prior to 1596, this much-loved play is referred to in multiple memoirs and documents of the day and in subsequent decades, including Samuel Pepys's diary, attesting to its impact and popularity. Blending action that takes place at court with scenes of city life, HENRY IV PART 1 marks a turning-point in Shakespeare's oeuvre, as action unfolds simultaneously in diverse locations, lending texture and variety to the drama, and involving characters drawn not only from the ranks of court, but from London's seedier byways. The sway of chaos and order, the perennial theme of Shakespeare's histories, is present here in the juxtaposition of the political realm with the Epicurean. AUTHOR: Alan Durband, Barbara Hodgdon, Barbara A. Mowat, David M. Bevington, Paul Werstine
PUBLISHER: Atria Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Get the Facts on Anyone
A guide that reveals the inside techniques that professional investigators use to find out anything about anyone.
PUBLISHER: Peterson's
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Castaway in Paradise by James C. Simmons
Castaway in Paradise explores the reality in the myth through the exciting stories of castaways who, because of shipwrecks, perfidious sea captains. or their own choice, found them selves true-life Robinson Crusoes. From Alexander Selkirk, Defoe`s model for Crusoe, to Melville`s voluntary marooning in the Marquesas coming to the present time with Tom Neale, a drifter from New Zealand who became the hermit of Suwarrow the author presents a fascinating array of castaways and their adventures. AUTHOR: James C. Simmons
PUBLISHER: Sheridan House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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