Tony Wheeler's Islands of Australia
Not just an island continent, Australia is a continent of islands. With over 8,000, it has more than the entire Caribbean.
- Format
- PB
- Category
- Non-Fiction
- Publisher
- NewSouth Books
- Publish Date
- October 2019
Join seasoned traveller Tony Wheeler on a journey around the Australian coast and beyond to discover the stunning natural features, unique wildlife and chequered histories of Australia’s remarkable (and remarkably diverse) islets, cays, atolls and archipelagos. Find out why the Whitsundays should have been called the Whitmondays, encounter Australia’s only known pirate, witness mutiny and murder on the Bounty and Batavia, meet giant lizards and friendly quokkas, and discover rich Indigenous cultures.
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