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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cari snorkels in the beautiful Red Sea and then gets an even better look under the sea on an underwater dive. In the desert, she meets a Jordanian brother and sister, and the three have fun playing in the sand dunes. Cari learns about zaerb, a traditional food cooked under the sand, and is thrilled to discover she'll be camping in the desert overnight.
Series
Best in Australia volume Series 2
Pub. Date
[2013], c2009
Language
English
Description
In this fourth part of The Best in Australia, Series 2, boisterous Aussie chef Ben O'Donogue, award-winning Irish chef Darren Simpson, and sassy super cook Anna Gare compete to prepare the best terrine and the best savory tart. In the process, they offer valuable tips on choosing, sourcing, and cooking the right ingredients to make mouth-watering and achievable creations. In the process, they offer valuable tips on choosing, sourcing, and cooking...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
After the asteroid impact 65 million years ago, Australia was set adrift on a lonely voyage in southern seas. With host Richard Smith at the wheel, NOVA travels this walkabout continent to uncover how it became the strange island it is today. Australia's many unusual creatures, like the kangaroo and the cassowary, tell a tale of isolation, change and resilience. Australia's long history has seen mountains rise and fall, seas come and go, and whole...
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English
Description
In the wake of World War II, in a move closely related to the beginnings of the Cold War, the United States of America decided to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall archipelago. After the displacement of the local inhabitants, 67 nuclear tests were carried out from 1946 to 1958, including the explosion of the first H-bomb (1952). Bikini Atoll has conserved direct tangible evidence that is highly significant...
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Language
English
Description
As globally recognized landmarks go, the Sydney Opera House is tough to beat. But the city of Melbourne has impressive features of its own. This program looks at the high life while going down under-exploring Melbourne's 300-meter Eureka Tower, the tallest residential building in the world and the most exclusive address in the southern hemisphere. Featuring interviews with architect Nonda Katsalidis and developer Benni Aroni, the episode provides...
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Language
English
Description
The Great Barrier Reef as a whole covers an area larger than Great Britain, but amazingly only seven per cent of it is coral reef. The rest is a variety of interconnected habitats including the world's oldest jungle, hundreds of islands, mangrove swamps, mysterious deep-water gardens, vast sand flats and meadows of sea grass - all full of amazing wildlife. A giant deep-water lagoon connects all of these, and many of the creatures that live in it are...
7) Australia
Author
Language
English
Description
"Which continent is the world's flattest? Australia! Find out about Australia's landforms, people, animals, and much more in this book"--
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
Australia is a traveler's paradise: a land of stunning coral beaches that give way to vast tracts of parched red earth wilderness. It's also booming like never before, thanks to its treasure trove of mineral riches. In Episode 2, Simon Reeve helps a team culling poisonous feral cane toads that are threatening the region's wildlife in Kakadu National Park, learns how to survive off the land using ancient Aboriginal knowledge in the remote northern...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
From the bedrock under the Empire State Building to the Spanish empires in South America, the two land masses of North and South America are linked by geology and history. Today North and South America have some of the most spectacular landscapes on earth. They're the product of a violent geological past that shaped an equally turbulent human history. A BBC/Science Channel co-production.
Series
Adventure Angler volume Series 2
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
Micah Adams and Dave Bradley plan to camp at the northern end of Queensland's Fraser Island. A once-in-a-century flood has other ideas, but the boys push on and find some amazing fly-fishing along the way. There's a rampant school of longtail tuna followed by some of the finest shallow-water sight-casting for huge golden trevally.
Author
Series
Rosie novels (Graeme Simsion) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
Author
Series
Magic School Bus a science chapter book volume 10
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Ms. Frizzle's class travels to Australia to search for the kookaburra, encountering kangaroos and Tasmanian devils along the way.
15) Australia
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, people, government, culture, history, religion, economy, and wildlife of Australia.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 29
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton is going on another adventure to Australia with his friends Petunia and her brother Wolfie.
18) Son of a gun
Language
English
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Description
After breaking out of a maximum-security prison, Brendan Lynch, Australia's most notorious criminal, enlists 19-year-old JR to accompany him and his crew on a gold heist that promises to deliver millions. However, as things start to go wrong, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
Pub. Date
[2012], c2007
Language
English
Description
In response to Australia's extreme drought conditions, Professor Patrick De Deckker and his team spent several decades digging up core samples from the bottom of freshwater lakes and deep-sea canyons. In this video clip, De Deckker and his team reveal the results of their research and are able to contextualize the drought within an understanding of drought cycles reaching back into antiquity - a hundred times further than recorded weather patterns....
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