Australia & Oceania

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail...

Greater Than a Tourist: Perth, Western Australia, Australia by Nikkita-Leigh Dixon and Cindy Arlott offers the inside scoop on Perth. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination....

At age 26, Maarten Troost decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to a remote South Pacific island....

Part travelogue, part memoir, part novel, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's final - and most ambitious - works. A sweeping exploration of a landscape, a people, and one man's history, it is the sort of book that changes the listener forever....

The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in remote New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world, and even Michael's powerful, influential family, guessing for years....

In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak.

Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he hitchhikes off into the awesome emptiness of Australia's outback....

This is a story about our love affair with holidays. It's about going away and staying at home. It's about the relaxing times you had as a kid, escapes you have with your children....

After two grueling years on the island of Tarawa, Troost was in no hurry to return to the South Pacific until he began to feel remarkably out of place in modern America....

Full of adventure, wit, and natural wonders, Flannery's narrative is just such a spectacular trip - a tour de force of travel, anthropology, and natural history....

Culture Smart! New Zealand offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit into a memorable and enriching experience....

In this delightful memoir, Jared Gulian describes the first four years of their new life in the country, its disasters, small triumphs, surprises, and pleasures....

A true story of a man who took it upon himself to live alone on a deserted island in the South Pacific....

When Tim Bowden went back to Tasmania to explore his state of origin for the first time in many years, he was reminded of his adolescent assertion....

This audiobook talks in detail about this small piece of land that drifted into the Pacific Ocean during continental drift. Everything you need to know about each city in the country is explained in detail with no bias....

At middle age, Herb and Nancy Payson decided they needed a change....

Ten years after returning from the New Zealand outback, Jon receives a mysterious manuscript in the post. Narrated by Jon's former home, the lone RV, Squashed Possums reveals what it's like to live in the wild through four seasons, including the coldest winter in decades....

The ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten and the surprising....

The third and most ambitious of Michael Palin's adventures is a voyage of epic proportions - the circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim....

Both witty and poignant, Headhunters on My Doorstep follows Troost as he retraces Robert Louis Stevenson’s path through the South Pacific....

Learn about Australia in this amusing and entertaining children’s book, which will appeal to adults too. You will laugh and you will gasp, and then you will want to explore Australia and see its amazing animals and places for yourself.

Explorer is the story of what first led Benedict Allen to head for the farthest reaches of our planet - at a time when there were still valleys and ranges known only to the remote communities who inhabited them....

No visit to Sydney is complete without a trip to the historic Rocks district on the harbour foreshore....

New Zealand is a country of stunning and diverse natural beauty: jagged mountains, rolling pasture land, steep fjords, pristine trout-filled lakes, raging rivers, scenic beaches, and active volcanic zones....

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Greater Than a Tourist: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Fifty Travel Tips from a Local offers the inside scoop on Adelaide....