Into the Rip: How the Australian Way of Risk Made my Family Stronger, Happier, and Less American.
by Cave, Damien
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1760857092
- ISBN 13
- 9781760857097
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Scribner, 2021. Reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, few black & white text-photos, front cover & bottom corner tips few pages little creased, minor edgewear. 311 pp. Damien Cave brought his young family from New York to Sydney, to establish the Australian Bureau for the 'New York Times'. This book is about how Australians learn to live better by living with the sea (surfing) and partly how Australian culture is identified by managing the idea of risk. This book is a blend of memoir, history and interviews with some of the world's most respected psychologists. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41060
- Title
- Into the Rip: How the Australian Way of Risk Made my Family Stronger, Happier, and Less American.
- Author
- Cave, Damien
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1760857092
- ISBN 13
- 9781760857097
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2021
- Keywords
- australian biography, media, newspapers, journalists, families, sport, surfing, united states,new south wales (nsw), sydney
- Bookseller catalogs
- MEDIA & FILMS;
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Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...