Search Results: Titles starting with O from Lems Bookshop

Picked up by one of Cook's captains, Omai was the first Polynesian to visit Britain where he became a human curiosity. After two years he was taken back to the Pacific by Cook. A portrait of Omai in his two worlds and new light on the history of European expansion in the Pacific. 364 pages with 4 colour and 69 monochrome illustrations, 5 sketch maps and endpaper illustration. Book in very good condition with minor reader wear and minor wear to cover. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor wear.

The history of and an A-Z of pottery and porcelain. 192 pages with 8 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Book in near fine condition. This is a small book and reduced postage can be arranged in Australia.

The epic story of George Hogg whose extraordinary odyssey in war torn China from 1938 to 1945 climaxed in him leading the children from a school for orphans on a 700 mile march in the winter of 1944-45 to protect them from the Japanese. 288 pages with 8 pages of black and white photographs and a map. Book in very good+ condition.

Field work for a natural history museum and geographic society required the author to go round the world in an unusual way - beginning and ending in California, an exotic zigzag course is followed. 310 pages with 19 black and white photographs and 2 maps. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good condition price clipped with some minor knocks, chips and wear (see photo).

How did the Third Reich plan the Holocaust? Great Britain had some of the evidence but sealed it away. The author assesses the British and American suppression of information about Nazi killings and the tension between the two over how to respond and concludes with an examination of the consequences of keeping the information secret for so long. 325 pages. Book in good condition despite some water damage and some tanning.

Translated from then French by Lawrence Wolfe. The precise importance of oil in relation to any past, present and possible future event of the war. The procurement of oil in various forms such as lubricating oil and high octane fuel for aircraft was crucial in World War 2 - the author looks at supply from Allied and Axis situations. 88 pages. Book in very good condition with some tanning. Dust jacket in good condition with repair to top (see photo).

The battle for Okinawa by US forces. 184 pages including 74 illustrations and 3 maps. Book in near fine condition with minor mark bottom edge. Dust jacket in very good condition with knocks to corners and bottom spine and some wear.

The recording of history was made much easier with the invention and development of the camera. This book draws on the skills of those early photograhers and brings together a collection of scenes from early Sydney and Melbourne, of the goldfields, and of aspects of life generally including working, recreational and family life. 204 pahes with numerous illustrations throughout. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.

The author was sixteen when he joined the French Resistance and fought several battles against the Germans, in 1944 he went to England and there to Australia where he joined the First Battalion of Netherlands East Indies Infantry and fought with them in New Guinea, Timor and Java. He settled in Australia in 1947 and went on to become a High Court Judge. 239 pages with 8 pages of black and white photographs. Book in very good+ condition.

Lovable cat poems written by T S Eliot for his godchildren and friends in the 1930's. 64 pages with 14 colour pictures by Nicolas Bentley. Book in very good condition with previous owners name and a date on first page.

Twenty vital snapshots of Australian life that inspire and enthral with their energy, originality and genuine pioneering spirit. 308 pages with 16 pages of photographs, half in colour. Book in very good+ condition.

A new theory on the transition from an ape-like ancestor to the early humanoids - a model for the reconstruction of the lifeways of the ancestral ape population, the transitional population, and the early humanoids. It suggests that plant gathering with tools by females for obtaining sufficient food to share with their offspring was a very early innovation and one that played a critical role role in the transition from ape to human. 373 pages with 100 illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners ?name white out first page and minor foxing.

On the 15th May, 1941 the work of the Returned Soldiers' League and its members having served in the First World War was rewarded when they handed over to the Australian Army a well-trained and properly organised force of 50,000 men . Drawn from every part of Australia and almost every walk of life, the Volunteer Defense Force was truly representative of the people of Australia. 172 pages with 14 colour plates and black and white photographs and drawings throughout. Book in very good condition.

The full story of Mars, from early myths to the present day - its place in the solar system, its structure, surface, mountains, volcanoes, impact craters, ice-caps, atmosphere, weather, and explores the possibililty of past or present life. 222 pages with 16 pages of colour photographs and drawings and tables in the text. Book in near fine condition with previous owners sticker on first page. Dust jacket in near fine condition.

Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien, with a description of the Buccaneers and a short account of old-time ships and sailors. 344 pages with 23 illustrations and a map. Book in good- condition with first three pages loose, inscription on first page, number on first title page, previous owners signature on dedication page, foxing and tanning but text clear. Cover in poor condition (see photos).

The author, a journalist and naturalist, journeys through Australia and many other countries enjoying the freedom of a wanderer - a person on the wallaby, through Australia, Africa, Palestine and Asia. Book has no date. 212 pages with 43 black and white photographs. Book in good condition ex library with binding showing front cover but all intact, stamp on title page and inside back cover, some reader wear and light tanning. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear (see photos).

The authors' quest and adventure through various lands including Australia, Egypt and Bali with particular interest in Nature. 212 pages including 24 pages of black and white photos. Book in Good+ condition with minor foxing to edges and some tanning and previous owners name and greeting crossed out on first page. No dust jacket.

Inscribed and "signed" (initials) by the Australian author who travelled the entire length of the Eurasian steppe on horseback, an epic 10,000 km journey from Mongolia to Hungary retracing the Mongols of the thirteenth century. As he learns about the traditions and histories of the people his journey becomes a celebration of and an elegy for an ancient way of life. 509 pages with 24 pages of colour photographs and 8 maps. Book in very good+ condition.

An overview of a truly global conflict focusing on a single day, 25th October 1944, when the Allied war machine was in top gear but the outcome far from certain. 592 pages with 8 pages of illustrations and 7 maps. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners name on first page.

During World War 2 a small band of Australians volunteered to work defusing mines dropped in and around Britain - this is their story. Combining incredible bravery with the precision of surgeons they defused these lethal mines-often buried in residential ares, submerged in mud, or deep underwater- at huge risk to their own lives. These men were the bravest of the brave. 367 pages with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Book in very good condition with light tanning.