Australia and Oceania Travel Books
Reading up on the places you visit will help you get a little bit more out of your trip and to understand local sensitivities better. Buy books about Australia and Oceania online here from Amazon by following the links below.
 Wild Down Under. Damon Smith Published to accompany a landmark television series, this lavishly illustrated book, with over 200 stunning full-colour photographs, celebrates the natural history of this spectacular continent. |  One for the Road: An Outback Adventure. Tony Horwitz A journalist describes his hitchhiking journey across seven thousand miles of Australia's barren outback, recalling the Aborigines and other travelers he encountered along the way |
 The Songlines Bruce Chatwin From such ancient line, Bruce Chatwin has been able to trace a great deal about an Aboriginal culture as complex as it is different from our own. |  The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific. Paul Theroux Follows Paul Theroux's explorations of the Pacific islands by collapsible kayak. Paddling through the islands, he also finds an unusual melting pot of cultures and contrasts. |
 The Last Grain Race Eric Newby An account of a voyage undertaken by Eric Newby when he was 18 years old. He signed on as an apprentice on a four-masted sailing ship for the round trip from Europe to Australia and back. |  The Dig Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Will Reveals new historical and scientific evidence, tells the full story of the disaster with all its heroism and romance, its discoveries, coincidences and lost opportunities |
 A Traveller's History of New Zealand and South Pacific IslandsJohn H. Chambers gives the curious tourist not only a modern day portrait of New Zealand and the far flung islands, their political systems and economic diversity |  Australia : Journey Through a Timeless Land.Roff Smith, Sam Abell Illustrates the history, culture, landscapes, wildlife, and maritime of the continent of Australia. |