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    Watsonia: A Writing Life

    Don Watson

    No other writer has journeyed further into the soul of Australia and returned to tell the tale… 

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    The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious)

    Don Watson

    A modern classic- Don Watson’s history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century.

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    Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language

    Don Watson

    Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia’s public language, Don Watson’s Death Sentence is scathing, funny and brilliant. 

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    The Passion of Private White

    Don Watson

    From the bestselling author of The Bush, the highly acclaimed story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land - a unique…

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    The Bush

    Don Watson,Hamish Hamilton

    Taking you a on a journey through Australias landscape, and its inhabitants, this book examines what we have made, what we have destroyed, and what we have become in the…

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    American Journeys

    Don Watson

    In May 2005, on a sudden impulse, Don Watson took a train called The Southwest Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles: like a woodworm, he thought, drilling a tiny groove…

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    The Bush

    Don Watson,Don Watson

    Taking you a on a journey through Australias landscape, and its inhabitants, this book examines what we have made, what we have destroyed, and what we have become in the…

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    There It Is Again

    Don Watson

    Historian, essayist, speechwriter, humourist, anti-cant crusader; Don Watson has a gift for luring us to the nub of a matter, or at least to a new view of it, there…

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    Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia

    Don Watson

    After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells…

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    Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Austrtalia

    Don Watson

    After their military defeat in 1745 the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn anthropology…

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    Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words,Contemporary Cliches, Cant & Management Jargon

    Don Watson

    The prime minister speaks of core and non-core election promises, your boss asks you to commit to an involuntary career event (you’re fired), and hospitals refer to negative patient outcomes…

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    On Indignation

    Don Watson

    Don Watson takes us on a journey of indignation and how it has been expressed in his forebears. His ire towards US politicians has a new moving target: Donald Trump…

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    Recollections Of A Bleeding Heart

    Don Watson

    The long awaited authorised biography of Paul Keating’s four years as Australia’s Prime Minister. Written by his speech writer, this book is based on notes made during his term of…

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    On the US election

    Don Watson

    Is the United States disintegrating?

    Don Watson offers a report from America that catches the madness and the politics of an election like no other.

    This is a deeply historically…

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    A Single Tree

    Don Watson

    A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent.

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    The Passion of Private White

    Don Watson

    From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land - a unique, astonishing window…

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    Theatre with a Purpose

    Don Watson

    This study of British amateur theatre in the inter-war period examines five different but interwoven examples of the belief, common in theatrical and educational circles at the time, that amateur…

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    1984 & Animal Farm

    George Orwell

    Two of the greatest and most influential works of the twentieth century, together in one edition.

    George Orwell’s novels about the dangers of tyranny, the corruption of the state and…

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    Quarterly Essay 63: Enemy Within - American Politics in the Time of Trump

    Don Watson

    In Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016 - and the strangest election campaign that country has seen.

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    A Single Tree

    A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson’s award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the…

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    Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within: American Politics in the Time of Trump

    Don Watson

    In Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016 - and the strangest election campaign that country has seen…

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    American Journeys

    Don Watson

    In May 2005, on a sudden impulse, Don Watson took a train called The Southwest Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles: like a woodworm, he thought, drilling a tiny groove…

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    American Journeys

    Don Watson

    In May 2005, on a sudden impulse, Don Watson took a train called The Southwest Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles: like a woodworm, he thought, drilling a tiny groove…

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    The Passion of Private White

    Don Watson

    From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land - a unique window into…

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    There It Is Again: Collected Writings

    Don Watson

    Speechwriter, historian, essayist, word doctor; Don Watson has a gift for gently guiding us to the nub of a matter and a grinding of the teeth, an aha or a…

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    The Passion of Private White

    Don Watson

    From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land - a unique, astonishing window…

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    Worst Words: A compendium of contemporary cant, gibberish and jargon

    Don Watson

    Dr Don Watson - with his trademark wit and wisdom - says enough already! The English language is complex and evolving, and can win minds, hearts and nations. Why don’t…

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    The Passion of Private White

    Don Watson

    From the bestselling author of The Bush, the story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a remote Aboriginal tribe: a miniature epic of human adaptation, suffering and…

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    Indians of the Mesa Verde

    Don Watson

    Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

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    Watsonia: A Writing Life

    Don Watson

    ‘When you write speeches for other people for a living, any audience is a good audience. I address walls and poultry: I stand on a wheelbarrow and give after-dinner speeches…

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    Watsonia: A Writing Life

    Don Watson

    ‘When you write speeches for other people for a living, any audience is a good audience. I address walls and poultry: I stand on a wheelbarrow and give after-dinner speeches…

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    Boy From The Bush: The Songs and The Stories

    Don Watson,Hamish Hamilton

    Lee Kernaghan is ‘the Boy From the Bush’, an iconic star and 2008 Australian of the Year whose music has shaped a generation of country music fans. For the first…

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    The Wayward Tourist: Mark Twain’s Adventures In Australia

    Mark Twain,Don Watson

    This republishes Mark Twain’s Australian travel writing, in which he recounts his impressions of Sydney and his view of Australian history. Includes introduction from Don Watson.

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    The Bush

    Don Watson,Hamish Hamilton

    Taking you a on a journey through Australias landscape, and its inhabitants, this book examines what we have made, what we have destroyed, and what we have become in the…

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    Boy From The Bush: The Songs and The Stories

    Don Watson,Hamish Hamilton

    Lee Kernaghan is ‘the Boy From the Bush’, an iconic star and 2008 Australian of the Year whose music has shaped a generation of country music fans. For the first…

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    Rivers: The Lifeblood of Australia

    Ian Hoskins

    *Longlisted for the 2021 Indie Book Awards: Illustrated Non-Fiction*

    Rivers have long run in the blood of Australians.

    Givers of life and subjects of anguish, Australian rivers have shaped the…

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    Up and Down: Victories and Struggles in the Course of Life

    Bubba Watson

    Bubba Watson shares his powerful story of the breaking point that gave him clarity.

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    Up and Down: Victories and Struggles in the Course of Life

    Bubba Watson

    Bubba Watson shares his powerful story of the breaking point that gave him clarity.

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    Verdi Don Carlos Opera In English

    Gavin Julian Watson Bayley Dazeley Miles

    Julian Gavin (tenor), Janice Watson (soprano), Clive Bayley\n(bass), William Dazeley (baritone), Alastair Miles (bass), Jane\nDutton (mezzo), Sir John Tomlinson (bass), Orchestra and Chorus of\nOpera North, Richard Farnes

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    Little Books On Audio: Volume One

    Mark Scott,John Birmingham,Tony Wheeler,Blanche d'Alpuget,Don Watson

    The ‘On’ series - little books on big ideas - pairs Australia’s leading thinkers and cultural figures with some of the big themes in life.

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    Little Books On Audio: Volume One

    Mark Scott,John Birmingham,Tony Wheeler,Blanche d'Alpuget,Don Watson

    The ‘On’ series - little books on big ideas - pairs Australia’s leading thinkers and cultural figures with some of the big themes in life.

    This collection includes:

    On Us…

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    Rumble

    The biggest underdog story ever.

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