Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating d
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet Central Australia Adelaide to Darwin is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Sydney will lead you straight to the very best attractions Sydney has to offer. Whether you're looking to visit the spectacular Sydney Opera House, experience one of
In small-town, suburban New Zealand, with its seemingly average people, can be found many stories of lives, loves, aspirations, and, sporadically, a dark secret or two. As reported by a much-followed
An exploration of the city Australians love to hate, this book shows that there is more to the capital of Australia than politics, geometrically designed roads, and mid-century architecture. Canberra
In 1910, hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles, a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to
In The Home of the Blizzard, Sir Douglas Mawson records his historic expedition to explore uncharted land in Antarctica. Pitted against formidable natural forces, he and his team fac
A popular series of guidebooks for the modern-day traveler offering information on cities and countries around the world continues, presenting up-to-date backgrounds and descriptions, detailed maps, h
Camelman DreamingAustralia's Last Great Camel ExpeditionCamelman Dreaming is the true story of a dream that took fifteen years in total to complete. The Darwin to Melbourne Thank You Camel Expedition
Antarctica is the most alien place on the planet, the only part of the earth where humans could never survive unaided. Out of our fascination with it have come many books, but all have focused on only
Readers will travel along on a disastrous expedition that could have ended with no survivors. Trapped in ice and stranded for 20 months, readers will be fascinated to learn how Shackleton and his crew
Alice Springs, Alice, The Alice, Mparntwe is the most talked about but least familiar place in Australia. It is a town of extremes and contradictions: searingly hot and bitterly cold, thousands of mil
Moon Spotlight Auckland is an 115-page compact guide covering the best of New Zealand's most populous city. Experienced travel writer Andrew Hempstead offers his firsthand advice on must-see attractio
"Antarctica as Cultural Critique arrives at an auspicious time in history and on earth. Amid the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the European "race" to the last place on earth, Antarctica --
