Australia Oceania category: 2401 books

"You mad bastards. You mad bloody bastards." The challenge? Paddle a kayak around Australia. As Eric Stiller and Tony Brown would discover, the attempt would be a fascinating, frustrating, maddening, and at times hilarious crawl around what many consider the most beautiful...

Following are a few brief excerpts from this guide, written by a lifelong resident of Australia. She covers everything you might want to know about this part of Australia - guaranteed! The places to stay, from budget to luxury, rentals to B&Bs, the restaurants, from fast food to the highest quality,...

Tourism Australia statistics show that many overseas tourists, as well as Australians, are keen to learn more about Australia’s first peoples. And while the Indigenous tourism industry continues to grow, no comprehensive travel guide is currently available. Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country...

Cape York is one of the largest wilderness areas left in Australia and nobody knows it like Ron and Viv Moon who have been travelling there for 36 years. With over 35 extensive trips to and through the region by 4WD, boat, canoe and by walking, all their experience and their wealth of knowledge is distilled...

Mate, I reckon you're going about this all wrong. For the first month, you're only going to be aday's drive from Melbourne. If it was me, I'd get her across the Nullarbor quick smart so she can'tnick off home.' When Lorna Hendry, her husband James and young kids left Melbourne on a one-year trip around...

The Rough Guide Snapshot to Coastal Queensland is the ultimate travel guide to this area of Australia. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from the Gold Coast to Fraser Island and the Whitsundays to the Great Barrier...

  Enjoy your trip to Australia with the Tasmania Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.   The Quick Trips to Australia Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...

Camping around South Australia is the best guide to recreational camping on the market, with over 300 campsites across the state, including in national parks, state forests, off highways and in caravan parks. Each camping area has a description of the site, directions on how to get there, as well as...

  Enjoy your trip to Australia with the Melbourne Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.   The Quick Trips to Australia Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...

The Rough Guide Snapshot to New South Wales and the ACT is the ultimate travel guide to this area of Australia. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from the Snowy Mountains to Byron Bay and the Bellinger Valley to...

Hope is at the heart of South Australia. More than any other state it has shaped its own destiny with large doses of vision and optimism. It has been less frightened of ‘the vision thing’ and demonstrated willingness to challenge prevailing sentiments, experiment, boldly innovate and take a national...

In Girt By Sea Mungo MacCallum provides a devastating account of the Howard government's treatment of the refugees as well as delineating the factors in Australian history which have worked towards prejudice and those which have worked against it; ranging from Calwell's postwar immigration policy to...

In 1901, the year the six Australian colonies federated to become one country, revolution was being plotted across the world. Publicised in the newspapers and carried by migrants along global trade routes, the anarchist movement appeared prepared for a long period of power as one of the world’s...

The Rough Guide Snapshot to Melbourne is the ultimate travel guide to this area of Australia. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from Chinatown to the Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Yarra Valley to the Penguin...