Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback
by Tom Parry

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On the Road meets Down Under in this really rough guide to the adventures of an English hitchhiker and his reluctant French girlfriend in the Australian Outback. Thumbs Up Australia is one man’s witty account of the real Outback through encounters with eccentric characters on its dusty roads: from a yarn-spinning opal miner turned mechanic, to the grizzled Aboriginal elder with his tales of dreamtime, to the Dutch hitchhiker who paused at a commune 20 years ago and never left.

We see a country of opportunity and uninhibited freedoms, of mountains and beaches and thousands of miles of nearly uninhabited wilderness and, as our travellers come to realise, people whose pioneer spirit is very much alive. The perfect antidote to the packaged outback, Thumbs Up Australia is essential reading for anyone bound for the bush – or dreaming of it from an armchair.

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ISBN-10:	185788390X
ISBN-13/EAN:	9781857883909
Author:	Tom Parry
Publisher:	Nicholas Brealey Publishing London
Publication Date:	2007
Pages:	288 pp
Size/Dimensions:	8 1/2 x 5
Binding:	Paperback