Cycle Touring in Australia

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Lonely Planet Cycling Australia (Lonely Planet Cycling Guides) By Nicola Wells Lonely Planet Publications Paperback (352 pages) List Price: $21.99* Lowest New Price: $45.00* Lowest Used Price: $5.00* *(As of 17:33 Pacific 5 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Includes 35 rides mapped and described in detail, from one-day excursions to the spectacular 30-day East Coast Ride; illustrated do it-yourself instructions for bicycle setup and maintenance, as well as loading a bike for touring; tips for staying healthy on the road; and where to stay and eat.

Lonely Planet Cycling Australia By Andrew Bain Lonely Planet Paperback (372 pages) List Price: $24.99* Lowest New Price: $15.98* Lowest Used Price: $15.95* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 17:33 Pacific 5 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Brand New In the manufacturers retail Packaging. Buy it now! Product Description: Lonely Planet knows Australia The coasts of the wide brown land are perfect for cycle touring, and we've chosen the best rides for every interest and ability level. It's a continent's worth of great cycling experiences - from the wildernesses and superb coastal scenery of Tasmania, to the historic sites and gourmet highlights of Victoria, and World Heritage rainforests in Queensland. Whether you want a short ride through a cool eucalyptus forest or a wild 10-day outing through the country's most dramatic coastline, this guide gives you the best of Australia on two wheels. In This Guide: Everything you need to know to get prepared Bike maintenance tips to keep you on the road Comprehensive listings for sleeping, eating and facilities along the way

Bike Australia, Cycling Australia From Perth to Sydney By Paul Salter Epic Guides Paperback (135 pages) List Price: $14.95* Lowest New Price: $20.99* Lowest Used Price: $96.09* *(As of 17:33 Pacific 5 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here

Cycling Australia : Bicycle Touring Throughout the Sunny Continent (The Active Travel Series) By Ian Duckworth Bicycle Books Paperback (224 pages) List Price: $5.98* Lowest New Price: $4.94* Lowest Used Price: $3.90* *(As of 17:33 Pacific 5 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: This is a guide to Australia's most popular bicycle touring areas, featuring long and short tours in all regions of the country, two-colour route maps and route descriptions.

Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia (Adventure Press) By Roff Smith Random Released: 2001-11-01 Paperback (284 pages) List Price: $14.00* Lowest New Price: $67.00* Lowest Used Price: $3.34* *(As of 17:33 Pacific 5 Feb 2012 More Info) Click Here Product Description: NINE-MONTH TREK: Based on the authors nine-month, 10,000-mile bicycle trip around Australia, described in a 3-part series in National Geographic Magazine. ENTERTAINING, AFFECTIONATE PORTRAYAL OF AN EXOTIC LAND: Author gets deeply into the heart of the country, describing with great verve the people he meets, the towns, the landscapes and the hardships, loneliness, and self-discovery. KEEN INTEREST IN AUSTRALIA AND POPULARITY AS A TRAVEL DESTINATION: In America, especially, Australia is seen as a last frontier and a younger, sunnier, and more innocent reflection of itself. More than 4 million people visit each year; 2000 will be a banner year for tourism. PAUCITY OF COMPETITION: Despite interest in Australia, very little narrative, book-length treatment of the country in the travel genre. Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia is an American journalists immersion into an exotic land, where he had lived for years but never come to know. In 1996 Roff Smith set off alone into the Australia outback on a 10,000-mile bicycle trek. Over the next nine months, he stayed at remote sheep and cattle stations, old pearling ports, mining towns, Aboriginal communities, quiet rain forest villages, occasional big cities, and many solitary desert campsites, often hundreds of miles from the nearest dwelling. And so I wandered the country for more than nine months, living a more magnificent adventure than I could possibly have imagined at the start of the journey. I rode along the Tropic of Cancer into the dusty heart of the Queensland outback, through the rugged and extremely remote Kimberley region, crossed Western Australians Great Sandy Desert and ventured out across the sub-blistered immensity of the Nullabor Plain in the height of summer. I had to carry as much as 22 liters of water to survive these lonely distances, carefully conserving each precious drop as there were no opportunities to fill my canteens. It was a grueling journey. What with headwinds, dust, flies, searing heat, steep mountain grades, icy gales off the Southern Ocean, and long days of hard riding, I lost more than 30 pounds by the time I returned to Sydney. But somewhere in those thousands of miles I had gained a new home. It was the people I met more than anything else that opened my eyes to what it meant to be an Australian and instilled in me a deep and new found pride in my adopted country. Gracefully written, filled with insights, and teeming with discoveries, this lively narrative will find a place on the shelf alongside Bruce ChatwinsThe Songlines.