West Coast Australia, 2nd (Footprint - Travel Guides) (Paperback)

by Katrina O'Brien (Author), Andrew Swaffer (Author)
Key Phrases: grassy foreshore, cheap light lunches, gold coin donation, Margaret River, Port Hedland, Coral Bay (more...)

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"Comprehensive, practical & buzzing with enthusiasm, this travel guide will have you planning your trip within minutes of opening it up!" West Australian"

Product Description
Australia’s west coast, closer to Singapore than Sydney, has vast expanses of unspoiled wilderness to explore. Footprint West Coast Australia contains all the information needed to become one of the pioneers of this little-known area. Highlight maps help travelers get the best from the region. There are descriptions of short- and long-distance walks, suggestions for outdoor activities, surveys of the best backpacker hostels, candid and current eating and sleeping options for all budgets, live music venue tips, and intriguing facts to add to the fun.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Footprint Handbooks; 2nd edition (May 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904777457
• ISBN-13: 978-1904777458
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,116,447 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars vast state, June 7, 2008

By	W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

If you ever have the time to visit Western Australia, the book can be a good guide to its vastness. The state is twice the size of Alaska, with scarcely 2 million people. And over half of these are in the Perth metropolitan area.

The book's coverage of Perth and Fremantle isn't bad. Describing places like Kings Park, with a magnificent view of the Swan River and the CBD. The city is basically as clean and safe as portrayed by the authors. Travel books are typically panglossian. Skipping carefully over the slums and bad aspects of a city. Since such books are sold to people going to a region. But the synopsis of Perth is accurate.

The south west has a slightly cooler climate. The grape growing in the Margaret River district is explained as world renowned.

While if you do venture north of Perth, the photos in the book illustrate the desolate beauty of the coastline. The outback stretches to the Indian Ocean. The mining towns of Tom Price and Newman are shown. Important in the global sense, for a lot of iron ore mined from here gets exported; mainly to Asia.