Surviving Australia: A Practical Guide to Staying Alive

Visiting the Australian outback can be a wonderful experience, but it isn't all about boomerangs and koalas, kangaroos and didgeridoos. It can be a wild and dangerous place if you're not prepared. Here is the essential travel companion for enduring the toughest stuff this rugged continent can offer -- a veritable survivor's guide to managing the unexpected when you're Down Under. Renowned Australian adventurer and bestselling author Sorrel Wilby provides you with the basic lessons on negotiating your way through the bush, across the outback, over the top end, and into the surf and sea. You'll get important lifesaving information on: where you should and shouldn't be driving your Range Rover dealing with natural hazards like river crossings, bush fires, storms, and rips warding off snakes, scorpions, crocs, and sharks encountering Aboriginal people, Bushies, Eccentrics, and Surfers finding food and water treating heatstroke, hypothermia, and tropical infections identifying proper emergency radio frequencies and much more!

Author: Sorrel Wilby
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 01/01/2001
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.33w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780743423670
ISBN10: 0743423674
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Television | Guides & Reviews
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Travel | Australia & Oceania

About the Author
Sorrel Wilby is an award-winning adventurer, photographer, and author of Journey Across Tibet and Surviving Australia.