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Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback
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Tom Parry
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: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Real Outback is the true story of Tom Parry's journey through the Outback. As Parry and his girlfriend hitch their way around the near-empty highways, they encounte...more
Paperback, 281 pages
Published
September 25th 2006
by Nicholas Brealey Publishing
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This book was a disappointment. For a travel writer, he hasn't seemed to found his voice. He switches back and forth between scholarly tone and street lingo. For all the places in Australia that Tom Parry visited, he rarely DOES anything. He just hitches. So you take ride after ride with him. And he glorifies thi...s explorer (Stuart) who is credited for rail routes and various settlements, but he doesn't touch much on the heart of Australia TODAY. Why bother going to see what it's like today, i...more
I've always been interested in Australia and this book gives a beyond-the-guidebooks account of being there. It's often funny but I got a little bit tired of the "we met, then we left" format that seemed repetitive and, ultimately, a bit superficial.
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