Overbooked specializes in providing timely information about fiction (all genres) and readable nonfiction. Overbooked has been online since 1994. Overbooked is a work in progress . . .

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Sense of Place Stars: Australia

 

Page Modified: June 8, 2007

 

Fiction and Nonfiction Titles

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A list of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on this list. Titles are listed alphabetically by author.

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

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Fiction

Nonfiction

• In A Sunburned Country
  by Bryson, Bill
  Publisher: Broadway $ 25 ISBN: 0767903854 Date: 2000
  PW Booklist Kirkus
  The bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods now takes a truly outrageous tour Down Under, revealing hundreds of entertaining eccentricities about the world's largest island--and about himself. Leaving no Vegemite unsavored, readers will accompany Bryson as he dodges jellyfish while learning to surf at Bondi Beach, discovers a fish that can climb trees, dehydrates in sweltering deserts, and tells the true story of the rejected Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House.
  Suggested Reading: Travel Tales | All Stars

 

• Kangaroo Dreaming: An Australian Wildlife Odyssey
  by Kanze, Edward
  Publisher: Random $25 ISBN: 0609607960 Date: 2000
  Booklist
  A cross between Blue Highways and Homer's Odyssey, this book takes us on an epic journey through the Australian landscape. Weaving in late-breaking discoveries about beloved Australian animals, Kangaroo Dreaming gives readers an up-close view of koalas, Tasmanian devils, kangaroos, wallabies, and platypuses. Kanze distinctively frames his narrative within a brief and lively retelling of The Odyssey; along the way there are great hazards, ogres, and temptations.
  Suggested Reading: Travel Tales | Nature

 

• The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
  Author: Rees, Sian
  Publisher: Hyperion $ 23.95 ISBN: 078687876 Date: 2002
  PW
  A seafaring story with a twist, this riveting work of rediscovered history tells for the first time the plight of the female convicts aboard the Lady Julian, which set sail from England in 1789 and arrived in Australia's Botany Bay a year later.
  Updated 2.18.02

 

 

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