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Australia is a land celebrated for its diversity - from snow-capped mountains to coral reefs and multicultural cities to vast forests and deserts, the island continent has it all. Stanfords stocks a huge range of Australia travel guides for every type of excursion Down Under.

Browse our collection of Australia guide books below - we stock guides and Australia maps from renowned publishers as well as specialist, hard-to-find publications. We also feature recommended holiday reading and all your essential travel accessories.

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    A Secret Country

    by John Pilger
    Australia often gets a bad press over here: Crocodile Dundee, Neighbours, etc. This book is about a different Australia. John Pilger shocks when he writes about issues of oppression, race and class...
    • Publisher: Vintage
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    Lost Paradise

    by Cess Nooteboom
    Alma and Almut share a fascination for Australia and its ancient peoples; their ceremonies, sand drawings and body paintings. After Alma suffers a traumatic attack, they board a cheap flight from S...
    • Publisher: Vintage
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    In Tasmania

    by Nicholas Shakespeare
    In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the turbulent yet fascinating history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cast of unlikely characters - from Errol F...
    • Publisher: Vintage
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    The Fatal Shore

    by Robert Hughes
    The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes is the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.

    In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of...
    • Publisher: Vintage
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    The Songlines

    by Bruce Chatwin
    The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, ancient tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines Aboriginals passed the songs which...
    • Publisher: Vintage
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    Tracks Scats and Other Traces

    by Barbara Triggs
    Everything the wildlife enthusiast needs to spot the presence of a mammal. Each species has a distribution map showing where one is likely to see it. Other clues are also covered, e.g. droppings,...
    • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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    Digger

    by Max Anderson
    Digger is the story of a foreigner arriving unannounced and ill-equipped in a mining town that boomed and died before the Great War began, a town whose sole heirs are eight buildings, 13 people and a p...
    • Publisher: Picador
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    Shantaram

    by Gregory David Roberts
    Shantaram is a book of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of Gregory David Roberts’ ten years in the Bombay underworld.

    In 1978, gifted...
    • Publisher: Abacus
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    Today's travellers are a sophisticated lot. Demanding and design savvy, they have been ill-served by a travel-guide market saturated with text-heavy tomes, none of which have catered to the...
    • Publisher: Thames & Hudson
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    Down Under

    by Bill Bryson
    Bill Bryson journeys Down Under to travel the world’s largest island, the only island that is also a continent, and the only continent that is also a country. It’s the only continent discovered from...
    • Publisher: Black Swan
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    Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast in a handy size pocket directory from UBD, Australia’s leading specialists of urban mapping, with detailed coverage of the city itself 1:11,500, plus coverage of...
    • Publisher: UBD
    • Scale: 1:11,500/1:23,000/various
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    Lone Traveller is based on Anne Mustoe's second ride round the world. Taking historical routes as her inspiration again, she followed the Roman roads from Rome to Lisbon, travelled across South...
    • Publisher: Virgin Publishing
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