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- ISBN: 9780733318603
- Extent: 284 pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm)

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Geoffrey Blainey
Professor Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's best-known historians and the author of twenty-six books, including The Tyranny of Distance, now in its twentieth...
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