Australia - Recommending Reading

RECOMMENDED READING FOR AUSTRALIA

After I give a presentation on Australia, someone always asks me if I have any recommendations on what books to get. Over the years, I have put together a list which I enjoyed and am sharing this with you now.

Australia is such a vast and diverse country, you will enjoy learning about the differences of the States even if you don't go to many of the regions.

1. Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

Great story giving you history of the convict settlement

2. Tracks by Robyn Davidson

Story of a girl who spent 2 years on a camel crossing the

Outback.

3. The Australians by Ross Terrill

Australia in the past and present

4. I, the Aborginal by Douglas Lockwood

Good for the Northern Territory visit

5. The Song Lines by Bruce Chatwin

About Aborginal culture

6. The Outback Lady by Melissa McCord

About a lady who took 2 years in the outback interviewing stations

7. We of the Never Never by Aeneas Gunn

About the Northern Territory

8 My place by Sally Morgan

Set in Western Australia, about Aborginal families assimilating

9 A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

Great book about Alice Springs, Northern Territory

10 Kings in Grass Castles by Mary Durack

True story about a pioneer family in the cattle business

Western Australia and the Northern Territory

If you only get one, No.l. is good reading for the plane. It will help you locate Sydney when you get there, and the different convict settlements.

Australia is well worth visiting and I would recommend that you look at taking a train trip, a cruise, and getting into the remote places. It is somewhere to go more than once.

Maureen Jones

Aussie Specialist

All Horizons Travel/Frosch

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Menlo Park

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