"A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." --Chicago Tribune "A fascinating insight into what we're all about on the highways and byways along the outback track." --The Telegraph (Sydney) Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he hitchhikes off into the awesome...
Completely revised and updated for 2006, Let's Go New Zealand is the only choice for the budget traveller. Researched and compiled entirely by students who know first-hand how to see the world on the cheap, this guide has insider tips and information for the socially conscious traveller and is more useful and opinionated than ever. An ethereal quality seems to surround the island nation of New Zealand, or 'Aotearoa' - land of the long white cloud - in Maori. The incredible ecological diversity...
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the Years 1840-1: Volume 1 (Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the Years 1840-1 2 Volume Set, Volume 1) (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania, Volume 1)
by Edward John Eyre
In 1832, aged just seventeen, the future colonial governor Edward John Eyre (1815-1901) set sail from London for Australia. The farming life that awaited him laid the foundations of an enduring interest in the topography, anthropology and zoology of his adopted homeland. Following an initial expedition in 1839, in 1840 Eyre set out on his pioneering trek from Adelaide to Western Australia. The year-long adventure financially ruined the explorer, but won him the coveted gold medal of the Royal Ge...
Tips for the traveller in Australia is given plus detailed comments on accommodations, restaurants, shopping, and sightseeing for each area.
With a revised binding and format, "AA Essential Guide New Zealand" gives you all the information you need to know for a memorable holiday. Pocket-size and packed full of information you really need, the guide is great value for money and an ideal choice to help you get the best out of New Zealand. The guide contains helpful advice for planning your trip with information about when to go, getting there, being there and getting around. There are website addresses and practical information through...
Two Voyages to the South Seas
by Jules-Saebastien-Caesar Dumont d'Urville and Helen Rosenman
An Account of the Pelew Islands (The literature of travel, exploration & empire)
by George Keate and Henry Wilson
In 1783, the East India Company packet, the Antelope was wrecked in the Pelew Islands (now Pelau or Belau in the western Carolines, in Micronesia). Captain Henry Wilson and his crew developed unusually amicable relations with the Palauan inhabitants and participated in expeditions against their enemies. They were able to recover a great deal from the wreck and to build a new vessel, with which they sailed to Macau after a stay of just over three months. They took with them Lee Boo, who became a...
This anthology contains accounts of Java by 35 Western travellers, ranging from the 1330 impressions of Friar Odoric to Richard Critchfield's 1985 account of his return to Java. Through their eyes we see the island transformed from a distant realm of wealth and danger into an orderly and prosperous Dutch colony and then, in the twentieth century, into the centre-piece of the Indonesian nation.
If You Don't Live in Hobart, Australia ... Then You're Not Living at All
by Localborn Localpride
Tenerife West Walking Guide (Warm island walking guides)
by David Brawn and Ros Brawn
