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Cycle Touring in Australia


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Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia (Adventure Press)

By Roff Smith

National Geographic
Released: 2001-11-01
Paperback (284 pages)

Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia (Adventure Press)
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It's not every day that a fellow decides to pack in a good job, pack up his saddlebags, and set off by bicycle to make a circumferential journey around Australia. In 1996, that's just what American-born Time magazine correspondent Roff Martin Smith did, though; as he explains, he'd been living in Australia for 14 years but didn't really know the country, and he "felt no emotional bond to it." About to turn 38, a few pounds over his ideal weight, and untested as a distance bicyclist, Smith faced up to considerable odds, but he survived to tell the tale.

And a rollicking tale it is, as Smith meets with an odd assortment of humans and critters along his sometimes torturous path. (One all-too-long stretch of road, for instance, he calls "the most dangerous and frightening I've ever had the misfortune to ride: a suicide run of hammering trucks, heavy construction, muddy detours, and lane closures.") Smith logs time in crocodile country, too, in the far northern Australian rainforest, where he counts the awful moments until antediluvian doom strikes. It never does, and in any event the crocs are nothing compared to the errant sheep, emus, kangaroos, and death adders he encounters, to say nothing of the 108-degree gusts euphemistically referred to by local weathercasters as "sea breezes"--none of which poses quite the dangers that his fellow humans offer out on the beery highways of Oz. Difficult though the journey is, Smith keeps up his good cheer throughout these lively pages, and, if he's not quite unflappable, he's certainly a sympathetic narrator.

Expanded from his popular three-part series in National Geographic magazine, Smith's pedal-powered epic is an instructive manual for anyone contemplating a life-changing journey--and, for the rest of us, a highly enjoyable, altogether unexpected tour of the outback. --Gregory McNamee

Lonely Planet Cycling Australia (Cycling Guides)

By Nicola Wells, Peter Hines & Neil Irvine

Lonely Planet Publications
Paperback (352 pages)

Lonely Planet Cycling Australia (Cycling Guides)
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Cycle the best of Australia, with 31 tours along great beaches, across the High Country and through quiet country towns. Find a tour to suit you: explore Sydney's famous harbour; enjoy a few days of wineries and B&Bs; or spend a month riding beautiful Tasmania.

  • 139 days of Australia's best riding
  • East Coast Ride - Melbourne to the Gold Coast in 31 days
  • where to stay - quiet camping, cozy B&Bs or comfortable hotels
  • where to eat, for cyclists on every budget
  • what to see and do, in and out of the saddle
  • maintenance tips and bike shop contacts

Bike Australia, Cycling Australia From Perth to Sydney

By Paul Salter

Epic Guides
Paperback (135 pages)

Bike Australia, Cycling Australia From Perth to Sydney
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Cycling Australia : Bicycle Touring Throughout the Sunny Continent (The Active Travel Series)

By Ian Duckworth

Motorbooks International
Paperback (224 pages)

Cycling Australia : Bicycle Touring Throughout the Sunny Continent (The Active Travel Series)
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