Travel : Australia & Oceania

Completely updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer's Australia features gorgeous color photos of the spectacular scenery and amazing wildlife that await you Down Under. This extraordinary and opinionated guide is personally researched by a pair of lifelong residents, who'll show you how to discover the real Australia. We'll start off in Sydney, then head off to the Great Barrier Reef, where you'll find complete details on the world's most beautiful beaches, magnificent snorkeling and scuba diving, and other eco-adventures. From the urban pleasures of Melbourne to the rustic, untamed Outback, Frommer's Australia covers it all, with all the advice you need to make the most of your time and money. more...

Price: $23.99

Tim Bowden loves to go camping, and he has a great interest in Australian history. So both interests came into play when he and his wife Ros travelled in their newly acquired 4WD to Western Australia retracing the steps of the young explorer Edward John Eyre. This is the engrossing story of that trip told with Tim's wry humour and passion. more...

Price: $22.00

Life is not going well for Will Randall, a burned out, thirtyish teacher in an English public school. He's tired of his students, they're tired of him, and his girlfriend wants to call it quits. But things are about to change. Will has a fleeting conversation on a cricket field with a doddering, 84 year-old man known as "the Commander" who has retired to England after running a cocoa plantation in the South Pacific for thirty years. Six months later the Commander has died and his will is read: he wants someone to travel to his lost, long-missed island--where his old plantation has fallen to ruins--and devise a way for the native people to support themselves. This way they might avoid poverty, build a new school, and even fend off the developers. It's a mission of noblesse oblige--yet possibly a fool's errand as well. Will half-willingly agrees to go. Spread lazily across the Tropic of Capricorn, the Solomon Islands are not so much the Pacific archipelago that time forgot, as the one that forgets time. And as Will quickly discovers, it is a place where timekeeping is governed by the sun and moon, where schedules and deadlines do not translate into the local dialect of "pijin" English. Will's new home is Menali, a fishing village so remote it can only be reached by motorized canoe. His house there is constructed of leaves and stilts. The people of the village, some of whose cheeks are engraved with the rising sun, are welcoming, for they remember the Commander, and still practice a pagan Anglicanism in a church he built for them in 1956. They live on fish of every sort, mud crabs, yams, Ngali nuts, even the honeycomb of termites. Here and there in the jungle lurk the mossy skeletons of WWII tanks. Randall decides that the villagers might be able to raise chickens. It's low-tech, low-capital, and environmentally low impact. But--as the attached excerpt shows--finding live chicken eggs for hatching proves wildly difficult. Wil more...

Price: $17.99

The Sydney Guide takes you on a tour of the city - from its establishment in 1788 through to the Olympic Games of the year 2000. The guide is fully illustrated with over one hundred photographs and explores Sydney's numerous attractions. Although primarily covering the city, the book takes you much further afield and includes other scenic attractions such as the Blue Mountains and the National Parks of New South Wales. more...

Price: $4.99

Travel Sydney, Australia for Smartphones and Mobile Devices - Illustrated Travel Guide and Maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide. on Your PDA. FREE general information chapter and a map in the trial version. more...

Price: $9.99