Oz: Around Australia on a Triumph: Around Australia on a Triumph, Motorbike Adventures 3 - Softcover

Geoff Hill; Colin O'Carroll

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856408573 ISBN 13: 9780856408571

Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Geoff Hill and Colin O'Carroll take on Australia s legendary Highway 1 on their trusty Triumph motorbikes, circumnavigating the country from Adelaide to Adelaide. At over 15,000 miles long, Highway 1 is the world s longest national highway, covering practically every major inhabited part of Australia capital cities, busy holiday resorts, dramatic coastlines, tropical forests, scrublands and deserts. Join Colin who grew up in Australia wrestling sharks, snogging kangaroos and riding dirt bikes and Geoff, who has never snogged a kangaroo, as they take on wombats, emus and a plague of giant grasshoppers in an adventure that takes them from Port Fairy a little town that used to be known as Belfast to Botany Bay, Sydney and across the wilderness of the Nullarbor desert. And follow the extraordinary story of Australia, told by a cast that includes Captain James Cook, Crocodile Dundee, countless migrants and settlers, legendary explorers Robert Burke and William Wills, the folk hero Ned Kelly, and an unreliable camper van called Matilda.

About this title

Review:

Hill and O?Carroll take great delight in focusing on both obscure bits of Australiana and unusual people and places. -- Booklist "Booklist"

About the Author:

GEOFF HILL writes popular columns in the Sunday Times and Irish Times and is the author of Way to Go: Two of the World s Great Motorcycle Journeys and The Road To Gobblers Knob: From Chile to Alaska on a Motorbike as well as a collection of his travel writing Anyway, Where Was I?. He has either won or been shortlisted for a UK Travel Writer of the Year award nine times and is a former Irish Travel Writer of the Year. He regularly writes about travel for the Irish Times, Daily Telegraph and the Independent on Sunday.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0856408573
• ISBN 13: 9780856408571
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240