Product Description The market leading guide to Australia's very best walks, selected by an expert team of widely published authors. Includes a dedicated chapter on Australia's unique environment, animals and national parks. Foreword by Australian adventurer Jon Muir. Stunning rocky headlands and perfect beaches, lush rainforests, sun-sharpened deserts and the muted beauty of the bush - taking to the trail in Australia offers a kaleidscope of colours, terrains and adventures for walkers of all levels.
Experienced authors detail 60 of the best walks around the country
Two-colour contour map for every walk
Colour section on Australian walking environments
Practical information on accommodation and transport options, from gateway cities to the bush
Discover Australia Feel the wind in your hair as you cruise the world's longest road; tips for driving across this magnificent, monster country. Find out where Lonely Planet's favorite Australians would rather be. Seek refuge in Cape Tribulation's Wet Tropics where the rainforest greets the sea. Join the dots; hear about Aboriginal culture from Australia's first people. In This Guide: 12 intrepid authors, over 70 weeks on-the-road research, 204 maps, one possum in a tent Wine regions boxed and packaged, brilliant food in every state, decent coffee every 300kms!
This book features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you through a rich journey of some of the best literature to grace our shelves. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide seeks to answer two main questions: ‘Which book should I read?’ and ‘Which book should I read next?’ The bulk of the text consists of articles on more than 400 authors, describing the kind of books they wrote, listing titles and suggesting books (by the same authors and by others) which might make interesting follow-ups. Scattered through this guide are over a hundred Read on a Theme menus of suggested reading. These are straightforward lists of between six and twelve books of a similar kind, from Adolescence to The Wilderness. There are also eleven double-page features, Startpoints, each of which covers a particular category of reading, with a large number of suggestions and follow-ups. In alphabetical sequence, they are: Autobiography, Biography, Crime, Historical Novels, History, Letters and Diaries, Poetry, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Science for Everyone, Thrillers and Travel. At random points you will also find Literary Trivia lists, ranging from Five Authors Who Were Jailbirds to Ten Fictional Places. These have no particular connection to the entries and are intended solely as (hopefully) entertaining interludes. The book concludes with several lists of winners of major literary prizes, including the Man Booker and the Pulitzer.
This second edition of the landmark book Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning.
This book reassesses this situation in the light of both early and contemporary critical scholarship and explores the intimate relationship between the mass media and the dis-empowering nature of commodity culture. The authors cast a fresh perspective on contemporary mass culture by comparing past and present critiques.
