Traveler's Companion Australia

by Samantha Wauchoupe and Samantha Wauchope

Australia is a vast continental island. This guidebook tells you where to go to enjoy the country's great natural beauty and unique flora and fauna, and provides entries on where to stay, where to eat... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762709502
• ISBN13: 9780762709502
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive and Inspiring

This is the first book I've bought in the Traveler's Companion series, and was a good find. I used it on a road trip along Australia's east coast, Sydney to Cairns, and the book convinced us to continue to Port Douglas and beyond - the highlight of the trip. It's particularly good on restaurant reviews, and includes a lot of smaller hotels that the other books we had ignored. A lot of great pix too, and good info on activiteis like diving and whitewater rafting. It was the most useful of the four guides we had by a long shot, but also the heaviest - could have been printed on lighter paper!

Don't Go Down Under Without It!

I was planning a month-long trip to Australia and I didn't want to go the strictly backpacker's route, but nor did I want to miss out entirely on the sense of adventure that comes from roughing it, at least somewhat. I wanted to experience both the comfort that comes with an organized well-planned holiday and the spontaneous adventure that comes from rushing headlong into things. This wonderful book provides all the information a visitor to Australia could possibly want in order to experience both comfort and adventure. Yes, when I'm in Sydney I want to know about the exciting nightlife and great restaurants available, but when I'm in the outback and I want to learn how to throw a boomerang (and catch it too!),or visit remote tribes in the Northern Territories, I want to be able to switch gears without having to refer to a different guidebook. But I found "Traveler's Australia Companion" useful even before I left the states. It has Web-related information covering everything from hotels to Aborigine guided bush-treks (a must-do), to both boat and car rentals. Once you are actually on the ground, its collection of maps of cities and states are big and detailed (vital in a sparsely populated country) and absolutely essential. Well-written pieces on Australian history, both Aborigine and European, combined with wonderful pictures, bring this fascinating country to life. If you're a first time visitor to Australia, or returning as I plan to, take this beautifully illustrated and practical book with you.