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Thumbs Up Australia: Hitching the Outback

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If you have a sense of adventure, grab a copy of this book. While I would probably never hitchike the Australian Outback myself, I really enjoyed reading about someone's adventure doing just that. Tom Parry's book is witty and sharp, and made me laugh at various points, and to comtemplate this wild and untamed land. The book reminded me of another travel adventure, One For the Road, written by Tony Horwitz some 20 years ago. If you have ever had a desire to explore the unexplored, you will enjoy this book -- Thumbs Up!

If you plan a trip to the outback I cannot recommend a better book to take along. A good friend of mine goes every year to fish and I gave this book to him and he reports it is an excellent guide for those who want to excperience rural Austraila.

I very much enjoyed this novel and found it to be a real page-turner in that it was a tale of endeavour and continually emergent experiences. This novel touched on an area most Australian's seem to be little aware of and seem themselves to experience almost as a foreign country most notably the centre and north of this massive country/continent. Indeed an area that most of us won't experience whilst traversing the urban parts so well advertised by the brochures. As such I found it a fascinating contrast from that given by the rather conservative and urbanised travelogues I'd read on this country by Bill Bryson's `Down Under' although in itself an interesting travelogue. Bill Bryson's travelogue was the last book I bought for my brother when he left for Australia three years ago, this will be my next one.

I was recommended this book by a friend. I must say I was a bit apprehensive as I am not normally into Travelogs, but I must say I really enjoyed it. My only criticism, is that it could have done with some photos of the places that were visited, but other than that... a great read. Australia is certainly more wacky than I realised.