From the Outback to the Great Barrier Reef to glorious, sophisticated
cities like Sydney, this guide helps you find the Australian adventures
and attractions that are right for you, whether you’d like to cuddle a
koala, explore a shipwreck, swim with whale sharks, or climb the Sydney
Harbour Bridge. It gives you the scoop on:
The mysterious Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Red Center that has awed people for thousands of years
Where
to spot all kinds of wildlife, including kangaroos, platypuses,
wallabies, Tasmanian devils, wombats, marsupials, and man-eating
crocodiles
The best places to take a beach walk or a bushwalk, where you’ll wind beneath dripping tree ferns and pounding cascades
All
kinds of activities, from boomerang- and spear-throwing instruction to
hiking to snorkeling over dazzling reefs, fishing for coral trout, or
discovering Australia’s best wines
Great accommodations,
ranging from luxury hotels to an African-style safari camp with
air-conditioned tents to a motel with underground rooms reached by a
maze of tunnels dug out of the rock
The best places to experience Aboriginal culture and find Aboriginal arts and crafts
Empire of the Mongols details
how the Mongols were able to sweep so swiftly and effectively across
the plains and establish a great empire, and why it was ultimately an
empire they could not control.
The period from the late tenth to the early fourteenth centuries was one of the most dynamic in European history. Latin Christendom found a new confidence which has left its mark upon the landscape in the form of the great cathedrals and castles, while thousands of new towns and villages were founded. The continent was carved up into dynastic kingdoms and principalities from which the European state system would evolve.
Once anthropologists thought that the Great Plains was a desolate place visited only periodically by hunting groups from the west and east and that native people could not have lived there permanently before they adopted horses and guns from Europeans. In fact, for thousands of years this region has been continuously occupied by people who relied on herds of grazing animals, particularly the bison. The life they made for themselves involved increasing technological sophistication and cultural diversity as they adapted to a series of environmental challenges.
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From the Outback to the Great Barrier Reef to glorious, sophisticated
cities like Sydney, this guide helps you find the Australian adventures
and attractions that are right for you, whether you’d like to cuddle a
koala, explore a shipwreck, swim with whale sharks, or climb the Sydney
Harbour Bridge. It gives you the scoop on:
