Search Results for ‘Australia’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 15 matches found

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...

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...

Fatal Storm

The Sydney to Hobart yacht race is one of the world's major sporting events. In 1998, it became one of the world's major sporting disasters. This is a vivid account of the tragedy as it gradually unfolded...

The Lost Dog

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“The Lost Dog” is the latest novel from one of Australia’s most promising young talents, Michelle de Kretser. Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote cottage in the...

Traveller's History of Australia

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Concise and accessible historical guides to popular tourist destinations. This series provides a good introductory overview for travellers who want to know more about a destination...

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...

Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia (1942)

This little book is marvellous reproduction of the original wartime guide, straight from the depths of the world-renowned Bodleian library.
Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia...

The Fatal Shore

An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of England into a horrific penal system in Australia. Acclaimed as a landmark text that has given its true history back...

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.