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Sydney From
the Rocks by Joan Lawrence. Published by Hale and Iremonger. Recommended retail
price $7.
The sailors declared you could smell The Rocks a mile out to sea and hear it two
miles at sea. It was at The Rocks that Sydney was born when the voyagers of the
First Fleet tumbled ashore at Sydney Cover. Its narrow streets and alleyways have
known the tramp of convict feet, have seen both wealth and poverty.
Joan Lawrence and Maureen Fry conduct five leisurely walks in this companion volume
to Sydney from Circular Quay and cover the western sector of Sydney from The Rocks
to Macquarie Place, Hyde Park, and Chinatown. Their walks tell the history if
the people and buildings of Australia’s oldest city.
Accompanying each are historical illustrations and easy-to-follow maps. A glossary,
time line, index, and suggestions for further reading add to Sydney from the Rocks’
interest and usefulness.
Visitors and Sydneysiders alike will delight in these engaging walks and this
entertaining guide to Sydney’s history and charms. Soft cover, 144 pages.
(45K)
Sydney Harbour:
A Guide From North Head to South Head by Clem and Therese Gorman. Published
by New Holland Publishers. ISBN 186436429-7. Recommended retail price $18.95.
Sydney Harbour: A Guide From North Head to South Head offers place-by-place
listings to help you plan your day out on the harbour with advice on where to
go, how to get there, and what to do once you arrive.
This essential guide to enjoying the best of the harbour features:
·
Places listed in geographical sequence,
from North Head, following all around the foreshores to South Head
· At-a-glance
information on harbourside walks, restaurants, boating facilities, public transport,
hideaways, beaches, barbecue areas, swimming pools and much more.
· Over
30 top harbour spots.
Sydney's harbour is truly amongst the world's best with water clean enough to
swim in. This book is your ideal companion for a trip to Sydney. Soft cover, 182
pages, published in 1999.
(47K)
Sydney, Insight
Guide. Published by Insight Guides. ISBN 0-88729-066-3. Recommended retail
price $21.95.
Insight Guide: Sydney provides everything you'll ever need in a single
guidebook. It is an inspiring background read, an invaluable on-the-spot companion
and a superb souvenir of your visit.
Included are detailed, cross-referenced maps with all sites clearly highlighted
and numbered in relation to the text. Full listings of travel details, restaurants
and phone numbers make it easy to get around. Soft cover, 294 pages. Published
in 1999.
(44K)
Sydney: Insight
Map. Published by Insight Guides. ISBN 0-8416-2067-9. Recommended retail price
$7.95.
Insight Fleximaps are produced by state-of-the-art computer technology.
The maps highlight major tourist sites and contain motoring information plus a
full index.
Informative and easy-to-use with additional text and photographs covering
the 10 top essential sights, plus useful addresses, facts about the destination
and tips on getting around.
Laminated finish allows you to mark your route using non-permanent marker
pen, and wipe it off afterwards. It also ensures that Fleximaps last longer and
are easier to fold than conventional maps.
(45K)
Sydney, Let's
Go Map Guide. Published by St Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-24639. Recommended
retail price $8.95.
This Let's Go Map Guide has a different approach from most of the other
maps. The map sections are fold out front and back covers. Sandwiched between
are 52 pages of information about the places in the map. It's an unusual and practical
approach.
(52K)
Sydney, Insight
Pocket Guides by John Borthwick and David McGonigal. Published by Insight
Guides. ISBN 0-88729-450-2. Recommended retail price $12.95.
This Insight Pocket Guide includes a pullout map of Sydney. It is the guide
that answers the questions you'd ask a friend who lived in Sydney. Which places
are really worth seeing? What excursions shouldn't be missed? Where are
the great places tourists haven't yet discovered? Written by two local hosts,
who have lived in Sydney for many years, it is based on intimate knowledge of
the city. Everything you need is in this pocket guide.
¨
History and Culture
¨ Tailor-made
itineraries
¨ Selected
Excursions
¨ Shopping,
eating out and nightlife
¨ Essential
practical information
¨ Detailed
pull-out map
Soft cover, 104 pages. Published in 2000.
(49K)
Sydney,
The Pocket Guidebook to. Published by Little Hills Press. ISBN 1-86315-82-X.
Recommended retail price $X
As the name suggests, a pocket guide. This highly useful little book provides
good information on:
¨ Where
to Stay
¨ What
to Take
¨ How
to Get Around
¨ Where
to Dine
¨ Where
to Play
¨ What
to See
Maps are included to aid in orientation and all sight-seeing attractions are
laid out on logical touring order. Soft cover, 127 pages. Published in 1998.
(26K)
Tasmania
by Lyn McGaurr. Published by Lonely Planet Publications. Recommended retail price
$16.95, our price $16.
Tasmania, Australia’s smallest state, is arguably the most scenic. It has mountains,
high rainfall, rivers, lakes and a good dollop of history. This Lonely Planet
guide has 51 maps which include walking tracks in national parks. For once there
is a reasonable section of flora and fauna, which, as far as I can see, is accurate.
Typically, the book is a mine of information about Tasmania and with this volume
in hand any traveler can expect to get the most out of his or her visit. Soft
cover, 335 pages.
(29K)
Tasmania Handy Map.
Recommended retail price $5.50
This 1:650,000 scale full color map shows the whole of Tasmania on one side
and the towns of Hobart, Launceston and their environs on the other. Free postage.
(56K)
Sydney, This is by Wendy Moore. Published by New Holland Publishers.
ISBN 1864366397. Recommended retail price $24.95.
From a height of some 8 kilometres (5 miles), the passengers aboard a jumbo
jet flying through a cloudless ultramarine sky look down over a vast striated
plain, the ochre-colored landscape that comprises the greater part of Australia.
Hours later, the first road, like a line drawn with a ruler, appears, then sporadic
homesteads are glimpsed, their postage-stamp tin roofs glinting in the sun and
looking far too small to be the hub of cattle stations larger than some European
countries. Later, the farms shrink, the rolling plains grow greener, and the
plane begins to descent over the box canyons of the bush-cloaked Blue Mountains.
Grids of suburbia finally appear Red-roofed houses swathe the plains below and
cluster more densely until, like the finale of a stage show, Sydney Harbour
is revealed. The city sparkles in the sunshine by the jewel-like waterway, aptly
dubbed 'the finest harbour in the world' by Sydney's founding father, Captain
Arthur Phillip.
Australia's firstborn city is still the most magnificent. Sydney is the
New York of Australia. It is bigger, taller, brasher, livelier, and when the
sun is shining, it is breathtakingly beautiful. Soft cover, 160 pages. Published
in 2000.
(67K)
Walking Sydney: Over 20 Original
Walks In and Around Sydney by Jeff Toghill. Published by New Holland Publishers
.ISBN 1864365102. Recommended retail price $16.95.
The essential companion for the urban explorer - visitor
or local - Walking Sydney reveals the historic past and modern verve
of this sparkling harbour city. Walking Sydney features:
¨
23 original walks exploring diverse settings, famous
sites and fascinating places off the tourist track
¨ easy-to-follow
maps detailing each walk route
¨ essential
information on transport, opening times and walk lengths
¨ the
author's local insights and suggestions for refreshment stops
¨ access
notes for wheelchairs and less mobile walkers
A personal guide to the most unique, interesting and
picturesque places in this great walking city, Walking Sydney caters
for walkers of all ages and interests. From the ocean at Bondi to the strobe-lit
streets of Kings Cross, the bushland of the North Shore and the historic Rocks.
It explores the most famous sights and some forgotten backwaters of this fabulous
city.
Sydneysider Jeff Toghill is the author of over 60
books and writes extensively for magazines, television and radio. For over 30
years he has explored the city bush and coast of Sydney on foot. As a yachtmaster
and marine consultant he has a life-long passion for this unique city and its
harbor. Soft cover, 299 pages. Published in 2000.
(32K)
Western Australia
by Jeff Williams. Published by Lonely Planet Publications. Recommended retail
price $14.95, our price $14.
Western Australia is an amazing place. I’ve been lucky enough to see the Monkey
Mia dolphins, the Nambung Pinnacles and the Bungle Bungles amongst other extraordinary
places. B(ut life would have been much easier if this book had been in my possession.
This Lonely Planet guide gives you “the good oil” on where, when and how to
visit this, the largest of Australia’s states. The desert wildflowers, one of
the state’s natural wonders are included and warrant a highly useful color section
on their own. There is the usual collection of maps and notes on such exotica
as 4WD excursions. Highly recommended. Soft cover, 345 pages.
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