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The Australian edition of the best-selling book for girls!
What Dangerous Book for Boys did for boys, Daring Book for Girls is set to do for girls; take them away from the TV and the mobile phone and introduce them to a world of practical, essential, interesting, fun stuff: how to surf, throw a boomerang, the best sleepover games, queens of the ancient world, princesses, female spies; fairy wings and how to make them, the scariest ghost stories, books that will change your life, bush survival - and all the many other things a modern Australian girl needs to know.
The Australian edition will feature home grown heroines, local flora and fauna, relevant history and fascinating tidbits. If your girl wants to know how to read the weather, climb a cliff, play touch footy, make a speech or play a great silly prank, this is the book for her.
′Great book for all girls, young and old′ Launceston Examiner
′Sensible without being preachy ... The Daring Book encourages girls to be fit and imaginative′ Weekend Australian
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The Bicycle Book
By Bella Bathurst
Since the millennium, use of the bicycle in Britain has doubled -- and doubled again. Every day, more people take up cycling and thousands now cycle to work. Yet, cycling is more than merely a form of transport; it is a way of life, a philosophy. Companionable or...
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The Address Book: Our Place in the Scheme of Things
By Tim Radford
THE ADDRESS BOOK starts with some of the fundamental questions asked by everyone, in every culture since the beginning of civilisation. Who am I? Where am I? Where am I going? Tim Radford attempts to answer them by drafting in a technique he first used as a school-boy, when he wrote...
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The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 - Where the Terror Began
By Adrian Levy, Cathy Scott-Clark
They have come in search of many things - nirvana, exhilaration, a sense of self. But over the course of the next week, their holidays take a terrifying turn when they become entangled in a nail-biting hostage drama that will suck them into an alien world of jihad and Islamic...
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