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Explore 24 books like The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin — a handpicked selection united by Australian & Oceanian Studies, Australia & New Zealand, Australia & Oceania, and Essays & Travelogues.

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A diverse selection of titles that share the core themes and atmosphere of The Songlines.

In the South Seas

Robert Louis Stevenson

Themes: Australia & Oceania • Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures

Dark Emu Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture

Bruce Pascoe

Themes: Australian & Oceanian Studies • Australia & New Zealand • Customs & Traditions

Discoveries The Voyages of Captain Cook — Nicholas Thomas

NICHOLAS. THOMAS

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Essays & Travelogues

Tikanga An Introduction to Te Ao Maori

Keri Opai

Themes: Australian & Oceanian Studies • Australia & New Zealand • Customs & Traditions

In a Sunburned Country

Bill Bryson

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Essays & Travelogues

Rolling Thunder The Spirit of Karekare

Bob Harvey

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Essays & Travelogues

The Flame Trees of Thika Memories of an African Childhood

Elspeth Huxley

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Customs & Traditions • Literary Figures

The Far Land 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific

Brandon Presser

Themes: Australian & Oceanian Studies • Australia & Oceania • Essays & Travelogues

Throwim Way Leg An Adventure

Tim Fridtjof Flannery

Themes: Australia & Oceania • Essays & Travelogues • Customs & Traditions

#10

Letters from the Bay of Islands The Story of Marianne Williams

Marianne Williams

Themes: Australian & Oceanian Studies • Australia & New Zealand • Customs & Traditions

#11

State by State A Panoramic Portrait of America

Matt Weiland

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Customs & Traditions • Ethnic Studies

#12

Country A Continent, a Scientist and a Kangaroo

Tim Flannery

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Customs & Traditions

#13

Pity the Swagman The Australian Odyssey of a Victorian Diarist

Bethan Phillips

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Customs & Traditions

#14

The Darklands A Melanesian Experience

Brandon Oswald

Themes: Australian & Oceanian Studies • Australia & New Zealand • Customs & Traditions

#15

Fantastic Dreaming The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission

Jane Lydon

Themes: Australian & Oceanian Studies • Australia & New Zealand • Customs & Traditions

#16

Finding Eliza Power and Colonial Storytelling

Larissa Behrendt

Themes: Australian & Oceanian Studies • Australia & New Zealand • Customs & Traditions

#17

On Rue Tatin The Simple Pleasures of Life in a Small French Town

Susan Herrmann Loomis

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Customs & Traditions • Literary Figures

#18

South From Granada

Gerald Brenan

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Customs & Traditions • Literary Figures

#19

Alice Marriott Remembered

Alice Lee Marriott

Themes: Customs & Traditions • Literary Figures • Ethnic Studies

#20

Inside Australian Culture Legacies of Enlightenment Values

Baden Offord

Themes: Australian & Oceanian Studies • Australia & New Zealand • Ethnic Studies

#21

Circulating Cultures Exchanges of Australian Indigenous Music, Dance and Media

Amanda Harris

Themes: Australian & Oceanian Studies • Australia & New Zealand • Ethnic Studies

#22

Wild An Elemental Journey

Jay Griffiths

Themes: Australia & Oceania • Essays & Travelogues • Anthropology

#23

Back Roads

Heather Ewart

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Essays & Travelogues

#24

Mozambique Mysteries

Lisa St Aubin de Terán

Themes: Essays & Travelogues • Literary Figures • Anthropology

If The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Australian & Oceanian Studies, Australia & New Zealand, Australia & Oceania and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bruce Pascoe, NICHOLAS. THOMAS, Keri Opai, and others.