Two well-known and competitive Australian bullockies undertake a fierce race, accompanied by their more peaceable children, to prove their superiority in driving their teams of cattle.
Presents guidance and tools for visitors to Australia, including trip planning information, lodging and dining suggestions for different budgets, and details on history, culture, and things to see and do.
Full-color photographs depict all sides of Australia: its urban and rural landscapes, its wildlife, its sealife, its sixty-thousand-year-old Aboriginal culture, and the rest of its society.
Examines the physical geography and history of the people, land, and culture of Australia and the Pacific Islands and provides information on early European explorers, the Australian Outback, and the exploitation of the islands' resources.
Presents the life of a young boy in New South Wales describing his family, home, school, and amusements and some of the traditions and celebrations of his country.
Thirteen-year-old Jonathan accompanies his luckless miner father to the gold fields of Australia, where he learns to be his own man amidst the rough-and-ready society of nineteenth-century Victoria.
