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Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback by Parry, Tom
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781857883909
- Book Title
- Thumbs Up Australia : Hitchhiking the Outback
- Publisher
- Brealey Publishing, Nicholas
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Travel
- Topic
- Australia & Oceania, Essays & Travelogues
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Brealey Publishing, Nicholas
ISBN-10
185788390X
ISBN-13
9781857883909
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038624866
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thumbs Up Australia : Hitchhiking the Outback
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Australia & Oceania, Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Travel
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-004327
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
A very readable and enjoyable tour of Oz that will only inspire the adventurous traveller to get off the well-trodden path If you're planning on a spot of hitchhiking, then the advice given here is not to be missed.-- Ian Waller, editor Real Travel magazine
Dewey Decimal
919.4047
Synopsis
On the Road meets Down Under in this really rough guide to the adventures of an enthusiastic hitchhiker and his reluctant girlfriend on their quest for the real Australia. Hitching lifts with the desert's dodgiest drivers and taking breaks in the roughest roadhouses, this is Tom Parry's witty, warts-and-all tale of hitchhiking 8,000 miles across - and around - the Australian outback with his thumb, his backpack and his French girlfriend, Katia. As the couple hitch their way around the near empty highways, they encounter as wide a cross-section of Aussie society as you could ever hope to meet. In cattle stations, Aboriginal communities, remote waterholes, caravan parks, hippy communes and roadhouses, they see a country that remains as extraordinary today as it was for the first nineteenth century settlers. Loosely following the routes carved out by the legendary explorers who first traversed the great continent, the couple get to grips with the country's fascinating history. Set against a backdrop of the real Australia - not 'as seen on TV'- Thumbs Up Australia is full of wonderful anecdotes and endearing tales of some of the country's most idiosyncratic characters, from the grizzled Aboriginal elder with his tales of dreamtime, to an amphetamine-swallowing road train driver. And at the end of their journey, it is ironically Katia who suggests thumbing a lift to the airport!, On the Road meets Down Under in this really rough guide to the adventures of an enthusiastic hitchhiker and his reluctant girlfriend on their quest for the real Australia. Hitching lifts with the desert's dodgiest drivers and taking breaks in the roughest roadhouses, this is Tom Parry's witty, warts-and-all tale of hitchhiking 8,000 miles across - and around - the Australian outback with his thumb, his backpack and his French girlfriend, Katia. As the couple hitch their way around the near empty highways, they encounter as wide a cross-section of Aussie society as you could ever hope to meet. In cattle stations, Aboriginal communities, remote waterholes, caravan parks, hippy communes and roadhouses, they see a country that remains as extraordinary today as it was for the first nineteenth century settlers. Loosely following the routes carved out by the legendary explorers who first traversed the great continent, the couple get to grips with the country's fascinating history. Set against a backdrop of the real Australia - not 'as seen on TV'- Thumbs Up Australia is full of wonderful anecdotes and endearing tales of some of the country's most idiosyncratic characters, from the grizzled Aboriginal elder with his tales of dreamtime, to an amphetamine-swallowing road train driver. And at the end of their journey, it is ironically Katia who suggests thumbing a lift to the airport, On the Road meets Down Under in this witty, rough guide to the adventures of a hitchhiker and his reluctant girlfriend in the Australian Outback. Thumbs Up Australia is a travelogue of the real Outback through encounters with eccentric characters on its dusty roads: from a yarn-spinning opal miner turned mechanic, to the Aboriginal elder with his tales of dreamtime, to the Dutch hitchhiker who paused at a commune 20 years ago and never left., On the Road meets Down Under in this rough guide to the adventures of a hitchhiker and his reluctant girlfriend., On the Road meets Down Under in this really rough guide to the adventures of an English hitchhiker and his reluctant French girlfriend in the Australian outback.....Their 8000 mile loop around the outback starts at the beginning of the 'Woop-Woop' and follows in the steps of great explorers. Going from South to North before 'Going Troppo' in Australia's infamous Top End around Darwin, down through Burke's 'Great Bugger All' through some of the most breathtakingly beautiful and unvisited parts of the Northern Territory, and finally completing the loop in Adelaide - where his newly converted girlfriend is the one to suggest hitchhiking to the airport!....As they thumb their way around the near-empty highways they encounter as wide a cross-section of Aussie society as you could ever hope to meet: from a yarn-spinning opal miner turned mechanic, to a Vietnam veteran; from the grizzled Aboriginal elder with his tales of Dreamtime, to an amphetamine-swallowing roadtrain driver.....The Australian outback leaves an indelible mark on both their souls. They discover a country of opportunity and uninhibited freedoms, mountains, beaches and thousands of miles of wilderness, populated by some of the kindest people whose pioneer spirit is still very much alive. This is an amusing and offbeat narrative of hitchhiking into the Outback that will charm and beguile both outback aficionados and those dreaming of seeing the woop-woop for themselves.
LC Classification Number
DU105.2.P38 2006
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