The Rough Guide to Australia 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

Review
A perfect companion, it's all there. -- Courier Mail, Brisbane, Australia

A real gem. -- Good Health, Australia, Jan 2000

All you need to know, with comprehensive coverage and detailed advice...an invaluable travelling companion. -- Australian Outlook

Comprehensive, clearly laid-out, well sign-posted. -- Far Eastern Economic Review

Detailed advice on exploring the great outdoors. -- Sunday Times, Perth, Australia

The definitive handbook. -- Adelaide Advertiser, Australia --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
"The Rough Guide to Australia" is the definitive handbook to this vast and varied continent, covering every town, national park, rainforest, marine park, desert and island from Broome to Ballarat and Carnarvon to Cairns. A 24pp full colour introduction includes '48 Things Not To Miss', a selection of brilliant photography showing the country's highlights, from diving the Great Barrier Reef to hot-air ballooning over Uluru. In-depth and entertaining coverage is given to all the attractions, both the world famous sights and the lesser known local's favourites. There are refreshingly opinionated reviews of the best places to stay, eat and drink, to suit all pockets from student-loans to expense accounts. "The Rough Guide" is also particularly renowned for its informed background on history, film, Aboriginal culture, and Australia's unique flora and fauna. Finally there are over 100 maps and plans for every region and town, all showing the location of recommended accommodation, bars and restaurants.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1248 pages
• Publisher: Rough Guides; 6th edition (November 27, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843530902
• ISBN-13: 978-1843530909
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,407,081 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do not travel to Australia without this book, July 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Rough Guide to Australia (4th Edition) (Paperback)

This book was a lifesaver for us on our three week vacation to Australia. The maps within it were fantastic especially on our four day drive up the coast. It was very helpful with regard to accommodation, and finding tourist information offices. We didn't leave our room without it on any day of our trip.

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Gives a few great places a bit of a rough treatment, June 27, 2003

By	James N Simpson (Gold Coast, QLD Australia) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: The Rough Guide to Australia (4th Edition) (Paperback)

This is another guide written in the same sort of format as Lets Go and Lonely Planet. It is a lot thicker than the Lets Go version and believe me, weight and space are important when lugging the thing around a whole continent. Let's Go also has a fair bit more information than Rough Guide in fewer pages. I also don't like the paper the pages are made of in this book as it's not a nice texture, is very thin and the pages stick together when the book's been inside a hot backpack and just don't feel nice turning the pages when it's a bit humid. Rough Guide is also rather opinionated on everything from each hostel to local information booth staff friendliness. I must say I do agree with some comments but a lot I never had the same experiences. That's the thing about travelling one person can have a great experience with a tourism operator and the next not so good. It depends who else is on the tour, in the room, which staff member you get and so on. If this was a constantly updated website that encourages feedback and changed the information regularly than I would see a place for it but not in a guide book. If you follow the author's opinion you'll miss out on some great experiences and even the places he recommends you may still have a bad time at. That's just the way tourism is. I'd recommend Lets Go over this for backpacking around Australia.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Typical Rough Guide consistensy, March 5, 2007

By	J. L. Albee "Faulkner Wannabe" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Rough Guide to Australia 7 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

As with many things Aussie, this book has an outdoorsy bent. There's far less history and social content than some other Rough Guides but that said, this book is typical Rough Guide density with encyclopedic coverage. The best thing about this book is that you're not likely to find a place in this vast country without at least a few words written about it. The chapters about particularly remote sections of the country are well done and fascinating to read. A good guide book should make you more anxious to get on with your trip. This one has that effect on me.

I'd like to see a bit more narrative about significant architecture and important institutions, and the book needs a nice new set of maps. There are few really good ones in here.