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Eurydice Street: a place in Athens
By Sofka Zinovieff. 2005
'We gazed transfixed across the small, strangely tropical bay at the bottom of the hill, and the surrounding palm trees…
and sandy beaches. Beyond the bay was the wide expanse of the Saronic Gulf, with its distant traffic of boats leaving for the islands and returning to the port of Piraeus.'This was Sofka Zinovieff's first sight of the view from Eurydice Street. It was so irresistible that she and her husband immediately knew that they would make their home there. Sofka had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wonderfully fresh, funny and inquiring account of her first year as an Athenian. The whole family have to get to grips with their new life and identities: the children start school and tackle a new language, and Sofka's husband, Vassilis, comes home after half a lifetime away. Meanwhile, Sofka resolves to get to know her new city and become a Greek citizen, which turns out to be a process of Byzantine complexity. As the months go by, Sofka discovers how memories of Athens' past haunt its present in its music, poetry, and history. She also learns about the difficult art of catching a taxi, the importance of smoking, the unimportance of time-keeping, and how to get your Christmas piglet cooked at the bakers.Carnivorous nights: on the trail of the Tasmanian tiger
By Margaret Mittelbach, Michael Crewsdon. 2005
The Tasmanian Tiger looms large in the national psyche - more compelling than Ned Kelly, more famous than Phar Lap,…
more beautiful than the bunyip. Does this beautiful creature still roam its island wilderness or is it forever lost to us? Three Americans are determined to find the truth about the fabled thylacine and set out into the Tasmanian wilderness. The result is a madcap adventure around the Apple Isle, a bewitching account of this land's beauty, its unique fauna, and a fresh perspective on what Tasmanians, and mainlanders, hold dear.Ticket to ride: Lost And Found In America
By Sarah Jane Darmody. 2005
After a lifetime of winning nothing but the right to be designated driver, Sarah Darmody strikes it rich in a…
contest so bizarre most people think it's an urban legend - the Green Card lottery. Her prize: the right to live and work in America forever, all for less than the price of an instant Scratchie. But it's going to cost her much more. Fingerprinted, stripped, x-rayed, measured and investigated, she's warned that unless she commits serious time to her new country and uses her Green Card, she loses it. So, armed with an ugly red backpack, a tattered map, and a wad of hard-earned tips stuffed into her bra, she sets off to circumnavigate the continental US of A by way of another legendary American ticket to ride, the Greyhound bus - and to go where no tourist has even been before. However romantic it might look in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' Sarah soon discovers the Greyhound is more 'Midnight Cowboy' territory, favoured by the desperately poor, the despicably odoured and the dubiously paroled. But she gradually becomes at one with her new tribe as each trip becomes a private Jerry Springer show on wheels, filled with truly unforgettable characters and their stories.Flying the kite: travels of an Australian politician
By John Button. 1994
Based on his experiences as a travelling Australian politician, John Button recounts stories on topics as varied as the Australian…
economy in the 1980s, and what politicians eat for breakfast, with humour, humility, honesty, and, of course, worldliness.Botswana time
By Will Randall. 2005
Through a series of serendipitous encounters, Will Randall found himself in Botswana, resuming the career as a teacher that had…
already taken him from an inner-London comprehensive to the slums of Poona, in India. In Botswana his career veers off the beaten track once again to the tiny town of Kasane. A place that has 'a very good prison', and arguably the best football team in the land. A town where school speech day is attended by a tribe of mongoose, a family of warthogs, a couple of circling eagles and a watchful buffalo. A town where both Randall and teaching are welcomed with unquestioning openness, and where Randall learns, mostly through (mis)adventure, all about Botswana.Sometimes the slow road can be the fastest way to sort things out. Relationship-challenged, with the résumé of a vagrant,…
Tom Trumble is at one of life's crossroads. So he takes up an offer to go on a seriously long walk - the ancient Christian pilgrimage of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the domain of the devout. Despite his good intentions, Tom's route takes him into every bar along the way while crossing paths with the loopy and the wise, the pious and the distinctly ungodly. He finds himself contending with song-happy evangelists, unlikely scholars and enlightened globetrotters, and randy backpackers out to bed every pilgrim they meet. Not to mention his own very restless demons, some of which lead him to confront troubles he thought he'd left at home.Great southern landings: an anthology of Antipodean travel
By Jan Bassett. 1995
The term Antipodes was originally used to refer to 'places on the surface of the earth directly opposite each other',…
and later came to mean Australiasia. Thousands of travellers from the northern hemisphere - from Francois Pelsaert, commander of the ill-fated Batavia, to Eric Newby and Jan Morris - have left records of their impressions of the Antipodes; some voyagers - Jonathan Swift, Samuel Butler and Jules Verne, for instance, travelled only in their minds, writing about imaginary voyages. Jan Bassett has collected a selection of ninety extracts from the writings of notable visitors to and imaginers of the Antipodes. These date from about 1605 to the 1990's. Included are dreamers, sailors, adventurers, political commentators, sporting figures and entertainers. Contains some coarse language.The world must know: the history of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
By Michael Berenbaum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 1993
Travels in American Iraq
By John Martinkus. 2004
SBS journalist John Martinkus provides a riveting portrait of a country on the brink of civil war. When the Coalition…
of the Willing liberated Iraq from the yoke of Saddam in early 2003, George W. Bush announced that the Second Gulf War was over. John Martinkus's account of seven weeks spent travelling independently around Iraq in early 2004 shows just the opposite. He takes us into the key places of the new Iraq - from Abu Gharib prison to the Coalition's sealed-off security zone. He provides an eye-witness account of the March 2004 Karbala bombings, and vivid accounts of meetings with ordinary Iraqis, religious leaders, insurgents and occupying troops - the events that take place beyond the official perspective. Tracing the ever-widening gap between rhetoric and reality, he shows that, amidst a developing guerrilla war and a chaotic reconstruction, the line between liberation and occupation has become thin indeed.From snow to ash: solitude, soul-searching and survival on Australia's toughest hiking trail
By Anthony Sharwood. 2020
At the start of the hellish, fiery Australian summer of 2019/20, Walkley Award-winning journalist and suburban dad Anthony Sharwood set…
off on a journey. Abandoning his post on a busy news website to clear his mind, he solo-trekked the Australian Alps Walking Track, Australia's most gruelling and breathtakingly beautiful mainland hiking trail, which traverses the entirety of the legendary High Country from Gippsland in Victoria to the outskirts of Canberra.The journey started in a blizzard and ended in a blaze. Along the way, this lifelong lover of the mountains came to realise that nothing would ever be the same - either for him or for the imperilled Australian Alps, a landscape as fragile and sensitive to the changing climate as the Great Barrier Reef.A highly personal account of a phenomenal, once-in-a-lifetime adventure that saw Bruce and his wife, Lynn, embark on a year…
of travel and birding across the entire continent in a camper van. Their aim was to see Australia, but also to keep a list of the birds that they saw together. That list began with two Gang-gang Cockatoos flying over their son’s yard in Torquay, Victoria and ended a year later watching a lovely little Speckled Warbler on a chilly morning back in Victoria with 638 other species seen in between.Growing old outrageously: a memoir of travel, food and friendship
By Hilary Linstead. 2012
Two old school friends reconnect unexpectedly after thirty-five years and discover that they both love travelling - and the more…
exotic and far-flung the location, the better! Not having a clue whether they will get along, the eccentric pair embark on a trial journey to Morocco. That tentative beginning has turned into a series of wonderfully unusual holidays, and Hil and Liz have been circumnavigating the globe ever since. Among many other destinations, they have taken in Marrakech, Fez and the Atlas Mountains; Patagonia and the Galapagos Islands; Istanbul and Cappadocia. They've been on safari in Namibia, Botswana and the Serengeti, attended music festivals in Naples and Prague and made a pilgrimage to the western isles of Mull and Iona. Along the way they have encouraged, enraged and entertained each other, while living through countless adventures.The killer koala
By Kenneth Cook, Jacqueline Kent. 1986
In "the killer koala" the author has gathered a selection of hilarious stories culled from his various experiences while travelling…
all over Australia, from the red deserts, to the jungles, to remote parts of the Great Barrier Reef.The little red yellow black book: an introduction to Indigenous Australia
By Bruce Pascoe. 2008
An invaluable introduction to Australia's rich Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture. If you're an adult wanting to…
learn what you weren't taught at school, or a student or teacher who wants to hear from and about Indigenous Australians, or if you're a migrant or tourist, or an institution or department with cross-cultural training needs, then The Little Red Yellow Black Book is a very useful and enjoyable resource. The book takes a non-chronological approach, and is written from an Indigenous viewpoint. The themes that emerge are the importance of identity, and adaptation and continuity. The four sections are: Who Are We?; Culture and Sport; Participation and Governance, and Resistance and Reconciliation. Here are stories the media don't tell you, mini-essays on famous as well as everyday individuals and organisations will provide insights into a range of Australian Indigenous experiences.The obsessive traveller: or, why I don't steal towels from great hotels any more
By David Dale. 1991
This is a collection of traveller's tales told with the author's unique curiosity, humour and insight. It covers why men…
read maps and women ask the way, how to stop a taxi driver from talking to you, how to souvenir from great hotels and much more.The whispering wire: tracing the Overland Telegraph Line through the heart of Australia
By Rosamund Burton. 2022
Interweaving history and travel, this story traces one woman's journey tracing the 3200-km Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to Darwin.…
Constructed between 1870 and 1872, the line transformed Adelaide into Australia's communication hub, connecting the continent with the rest of the world and heralding the dawn of instant communication.Struggling with a lack of experience and fitness, Rosamund Burton and her friend cycle the first 800 km from Adelaide through the Flinders Ranges to the deserted outback town of Farina, battling piercing winds and pelting rain, visiting sites and chatting with locals as they go.The author moves across the continent, storytelling, sharing its sometimes brutal history and listening to those who have lived in this harsh but beautiful country. This quest for connection with the land and an understanding of its people, is also an exploration of what it means for the author, being Irish born, to belong in Australia.