Search Results for ‘Australasia’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 13 matches found

The Meaning of Tingo

Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means "to take off your clothes in order to dance"? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or the Dutch word for skimming...

A Land of Two Halves

In A Land of Two Halves, Joe Bennett came to ask himself what on earth he was doing in New Zealand after spending ten years there. Other than his dogs, what was it about these two small islands on the...

Digger

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...

Down Under

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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...

Kiwi Tracks - A Tramper in New Zealand

Many of us dream of escaping from everyday life, tossing a few possessions in a backpack and travelling light in far-off lands. As "Kiwi Tracks.." stands, Andrew Stevenson did more than dream: he packed...

Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World

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 America...

The Dig Tree

This is the story of the ill-fated expedition led by Robert Burke, that left Melbourne on August 20th 1860 to explore the still unknown Outback. The story is well-researched and vividly narrated by...

A Secret Country

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...

The Songlines

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 revealed...

Australia: The New New World

Granta has dedicated its Summer 2000 issue of the Magazine of New Writing to Australia. The natural beauties of Australia have made it a favourite tourist destination and the millennium Olympic Games...

Sean & David's Long Drive

“Sean & David’s Long Drive” mixes sharp insights with deadpan humour and outright lies, as too city slackers discover their country.
Sean Condon is young, urban and a connoisseur of hair wax. He can...

The Backpacker

in John Harris' "The Backpacker", John's holiday in India begins badly. His girlfriend returns home after falling ill and he finds himself at the end of a knife in a train station latrine.
But then...

Tracks

The superb story of the author's 17,000-mile journey across the Outback with four camels and a dog.