Moon Handbooks Australia, Second Edition (Paperback)

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Product Description
Australia Handbook covers the rain forests of Cape York and the cultural festivals of Adelaide, discusses barramundi fishing in the far north and scuba-diving on the Great Barrier Reef, and emphasizes the unique Aussie culture of the nation's towns and regions.

Product Details

• Paperback: 940 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 2nd edition (December 24, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566911583
• ISBN-13: 978-1566911580
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,669,625 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of All!, January 10, 1999

By	[e-mail] - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moon Handbooks: Australia (1st Ed.) (Paperback)

I bought several traveler information type books before my transcontinental trip to Australia last year. This was BY FAR the best! After only a few days, I "packed" the others away.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely helpful, December 4, 2000

By A Customer

I bought a number of guides to Australia and studied each before leaving. They were all helpful in planning my trip, but Australia Handbook stood out for its coverage of the country in general as well as all the usual hotel and restaurant recommendations. As well as balancing this coverage, I found the book to be up to date and, with everywhere I traveled, anyway, coverage was thorough. Many guidebooks I have used in the past concentrate on the big cities, but this one led me further afield to the kind of places only locals would usually know about. By the end of my trip I was relying almost entirely on it for places to stay and eat, and couldn't find a fault in the choices provided.

I highly recommend this book to anyone traveling to Australia.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book to a great country, October 25, 2000

By	Jason Callaghan (California, CA USA) - See all my reviews

We purchased this book before leaving for a six-week trip Downunder. It contained all the information we needed for pretrip planning as well as wealth of information on the country itself. Once in Australia I found it an indispensible aid for choosing what we wanted to see in the limited time we had. The accommodations and restaurants recommended were also spot on, and it was obvious to us as soon as we started traveling that the book is extremely well-researched.

Australia is truly a wonderful place, so it may sound cliched, but this book really helped make our trip everything we had dreamt of. I highly reccomend this book to anyone heading Downunder. It is well worth the investment.