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A Portrait of Australia: Outback
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This book is ideal for young readers interested in Australia’s geography and nature, making it a great educational resource for children fascinated by the country’s vast wilderness and rural life.
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More of a space than a place, the outback is where big blue skies meet a red-dirt horizon. If the bush is where we've developed our country's sense of community outside the major cities, where the heck then is the outback? The beguiling but often unsatisfactory answer is that it's nowhere but everywhere: close to nothing and a long way from everything.
Travel with Australian Geographic through the 6 million sq. km that could be called outback - with a resident population of no more than 60,000 but an ever-growing number of visitors. Once, you could travel for weeks without seeing a soul, but these days even the outback's iconic Birdsville Track is a two-lane graded highway where you'll find it hard to be alone.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781925694789
Publisher: Australian Geographic Pty Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 March 2018
Country: Australia
Imprint: Australian Geographic Pty Ltd
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 265.0mm
Height: 303.0mm
Weight: 361g
Pages: 48
About the Author
Australian Geographic creates and distributes print works that inspire, entertain, teach and give readers access to a world of discovery — and possibility. They publish books for adults, families and children on a wide range of subjects, from animals to travel, cartography to history, fun facts to moving stories. Australian Geographic’s books support and are strongly tied to its educational and scientific mission and receive a broad range of cross-promotion in the society’s media properties, including print and online.
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