A Celebration of Outback Australia's Iconic Watering Holes
This popular visual pub crawl across outback Australia is lavishly illustrated with striking and fascinating full-colour photographs. It features an eclectic collection of historic outback watering holes, including such classics as Queensland’s famous Birdsville Hotel and New South Wales’ characterful Silverton Hotel.
A celebration of the country's most venerable establishments
Australia’s Historic Pubs showcases with vibrant photography 52 of the most cherished heritage pubs in Australia. The book reveals their varied histories and also uncovers many of the colourful characters that brought these Australian pubs to life, from the chaotic allure of the gold rush to the whispers of ghosts haunting ancient halls.
This new 64-page Australian Geographic souvenir guide is full of vibrant photography and accompanied by a concise, fascinating commentary. It is an indispensable reminder and souvenir for both international and Australian visitors to this very special place. Includes sections on geography, history, wildlife and culture.
A Celebration of Australia's Historic Mountain Shelters
Lavishly illustrated with beautiful full-colour photographs, High Country Huts is a nostalgic collection of abandoned mountain homesteads, shearers huts, travellers shelters and many other lonely structures. The text portrays a short history of each hut along with many fascinating accompanying stories!
Destination Australia is one of a delightful series of Ken Duncan Mini Books produced to provide a snapshot of Australia’s unique scenery. Australia is a continent of rare contrast, of turquoise seas and red-ochre rockforms, of luxuriant rainforests and sparkling white beaches.
Full of vibrant photography and accompanied by a concise but fascinating commentary, this is an indispensable reminder and souvenir for both international and Australian visitors to Perth, Fremantle & Rottnest. Armchair travellers and children will pick it up time and again to whet their appetites and perhaps to plan their own visits.
The ruins of South Australia are barren, isolated time capsules. In this book you inhale these ghostly narratives upon the opening of each creaking door. A diverse, unique and often unexplored region of the ‘Great Land Down Under’, the visual stories presented here are mere footnotes of South Australia’s long and complex history.
Alpine Australia – A celebration of the Australian Alps portrays the stunning high country region unique to the Alpine areas of New South Wales and Victoria. This superbly photographed coffee table pictorial allows readers to become immersed in the beauty which alpine Australia offers by way of awe-inspiring images.
Abandoned buildings are a viewfinder into our heritage and often offer us a story. With over 140 eye-catching images from places such as eerie old factories, crumbling asylums, untouched country theatres, forgotten homes, all with a small insight into their history, this is a showcase of some amazing locations within a few hours’ drive of Brisbane.
