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  • The Farmer's Son

    Calving Season on a Family Farm

    by John Connell ...
    A poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world.Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm.Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Outback Elvis

    The story of a festival, its fans & a town called Parkes

    by John Connell, Chris Gibson ...
    Where do thousands of people in wigs, jumpsuits and fake Priscilla eyelashes go each January to swelter in 42-degree heat as they celebrate The King? Parkes, of course – 365 kilometres west of Sydney – for the annual Parkes Elvis Festival. But how, and why, did this sleepy town get all shook up by Elvis? Written by two long-time fans of the festival, Outback Elvis introduces the local characters, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Running Book

    A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History

    by John Connell ...
    ‘Sensational! John Connell has done it again’ – Dean KarnazesFrom the award-winning, No.1 bestselling author of The Cow BookIn The Running Book, John Connell vividly describes a marathon through County Longford, Ireland, where he lives and farms. Because running is as much about the mind as the body, the book is about more than the physical experience. What John sees on his journey prompts him to ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • France in World Politics

    Edited by Robert Aldrich, John Connell ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1989, this book analyses France’s distinctive role in international affairs and examines the characteristics of French foreign policy in the Fifth Republic. The introduction provides an overview of France’s role in international relations, then specific chapters look at topics such as French military strategy and relations with the superpowers of the late 20th Century; ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $41.99 USD

  • Rural Revival?

    Place Marketing, Tree Change and Regional Migration in Australia

    by John Connell, Phil McManus ...
    How, if possible, to re-populate declining rural and regional areas? Examining this crucial and complex issue in relation to Australia, this book explores how a particular organization, 'Country Week', has emerged and developed as one means of stimulating the repopulation of declining or stagnating areas. While this is a problem shared by many other developed countries in Europe and North America, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Lambing Season

    Stories of Life on an Irish Family Farm

    by John Connell ...
    A hymn to the rituals of farming life from the bestselling Irish author of The Farmer's Son.For John Connell, the lambing season on his County Longford farm begins in the autumn. In the sheep shed, he surveys the dozen females in his care and contemplates the work ahead as the season slowly turns to winter, then spring.The twelve sheep have come into his life at just the right moment. After years ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Chinese Tourism in Australia

    Koalas, Selfies and Red Dresses

    by John Connell, Phil McManus, Xuesong Ding ...
    This book investigates all facets of Chinese tourism in a single destination, and its fascinating rise and evolution. It provides an overview of the first two decades of twenty-first century Chinese tourism in Australia, covering the early days, when Chinese tourism was mainly guided package tours with tourists visiting standard iconic sites, and its evolution into more individualistic tourism, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The Ends of Empire

    The Last Colonies Revisited

    by John Connell, Robert Aldrich ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Ranging from Greenland to Gibraltar, the Falklands to the Faroes, and encompassing islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the Caribbean, these territories ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • COVID in the Islands: A comparative perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific

    Edited by Yonique Campbell, John Connell ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two contrasting island regions - the Caribbean and the Pacific - and in several islands and island states. It traces the complexity of effects and responses, at different scales, through the first critical year. Written by a range of scholars and practitioners working in the region the book focuses on six ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia

    The New Blackbirds?

    by Kirstie Petrou, John Connell ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is the first book to examine the contemporary seasonal migration of Pacific islanders to Australia through the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP). It reflects on this new age of guestwork from a broad social, economic, political and cultural perspective in both source countries and destinations. In so doing, it offers a critical perspective on different phases of managed labour migration from ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • The End of Tradition

    Country Life in Central Surrey

    by John Connell ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1978, The End of Tradition is the history of four Surrey villages, the Horsleys and Clandons, close to London but isolated and protected from it by the Green Belt. Towards the end of the last century, a period of rapid change began in rural England as a new way of life centred on the nearby towns and cities replaced a traditional rural village life. Estates were broken up, ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Food Security in Small Island States

    Edited by John Connell, Kristen Lowitt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a contemporary overview of the social-ecological and economic vulnerabilities that produce food and nutrition insecurity in various small island contexts, including both high islands and atolls, from the Pacific to the Caribbean. It examines the historical and contemporary circumstances that have accompanied the shift from subsistence production to the consumption of imported, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD