Australian Geographic Book of Corner Country
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The Australian Geographic Book of "The Corner Country" is a truly comprehensive guide to the outback borderland, where NSW, SA and Queensland meet. Townships and settlements of this legendary region, founded on the nineteenth-century rush for gold, are now destinations for a new generation of adventure-seekers. The amazing experience of travel to harsh deserts, remote national parks and breathtaking waterholes teeming with life draws travellers to places such as Tibooburra, Milparinka and White Cliffs. The history of early explorers like Burke and Wills, Sturt and Eyre, who trod this landscape, comes alive in these pages and the book gives today's adventurer or armchair traveller a superb view of a unique part of Australia.
Author: Mitch Reardon
Format: Paperback, 160 pages, 217mm x 283mm, 654 g
Published: 2002, Australian Geographic Pty Ltd, Australia
Genre: People & Places: General
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The Australian Geographic Book of "The Corner Country" is a truly comprehensive guide to the outback borderland, where NSW, SA and Queensland meet. Townships and settlements of this legendary region, founded on the nineteenth-century rush for gold, are now destinations for a new generation of adventure-seekers. The amazing experience of travel to harsh deserts, remote national parks and breathtaking waterholes teeming with life draws travellers to places such as Tibooburra, Milparinka and White Cliffs. The history of early explorers like Burke and Wills, Sturt and Eyre, who trod this landscape, comes alive in these pages and the book gives today's adventurer or armchair traveller a superb view of a unique part of Australia.
Australian Geographic Book of Corner Country