The New Australia

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NEW, much-revised edition of
THE NEW AUSTRALIA, the book that has been in the bestseller list for a record time, over a year.
COLIN SIMPSON has updated his big book that is virtually two books in one. It is about Australia's rediscovery by the explorers for its wealth of minerals, oil and natural gas; it is also about what the continent has for tourists to discover.
It is so wide-ranging in its coverage of the country Colin Simpson travelled over for 35,000 miles, from Cape York to the Leeuwin, Tasmania to Arnhem Land and Barrow Island where a helicopter whirls him to a floating rig that is drilling the North-West Shelf, the great new gas bonanza.
This edition is right up with the October 1972 proposal to spend $6,000 million on turning the iron-mountained Pilbara region of Western Australia into a huge industrial complex like the Ruhr: Australia's biggest scheme yet.
This is not only the book of the now Australia, and fascinating as an armchair journey. It is also a splendid... Tovább

Fülszöveg

NEW, much-revised edition of
THE NEW AUSTRALIA, the book that has been in the bestseller list for a record time, over a year.
COLIN SIMPSON has updated his big book that is virtually two books in one. It is about Australia's rediscovery by the explorers for its wealth of minerals, oil and natural gas; it is also about what the continent has for tourists to discover.
It is so wide-ranging in its coverage of the country Colin Simpson travelled over for 35,000 miles, from Cape York to the Leeuwin, Tasmania to Arnhem Land and Barrow Island where a helicopter whirls him to a floating rig that is drilling the North-West Shelf, the great new gas bonanza.
This edition is right up with the October 1972 proposal to spend $6,000 million on turning the iron-mountained Pilbara region of Western Australia into a huge industrial complex like the Ruhr: Australia's biggest scheme yet.
This is not only the book of the now Australia, and fascinating as an armchair journey. It is also a splendid guidebook if you join the "Go See Australia" travellers to such places as -the Red Centre or the Barrier Reef it deals with island by island.
So readably and vividly written, this big handsome book has more than can be summarized. Just look at the Contents. And the Illustrations list: 56 pages of plates in colour.
It is a book to read, refer to and read again. And what a wonderful book to give.
Vissza