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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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Jon L. Albee
TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on November 27, 2013
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Australia is an enormous country that offers the perfect blend of urban sophistication, natural wonder, and rugged, rural beauty. In your reviewer's humble opinion, it is the world's best country. I love it. Always have. Always will.
Australia is endlessly fascinating, as the authors of this book readily explain on multiple occasions. But all this Aussie lovliness also makes a good travel guide that much more difficult to prepare. As the authors of this book have said, they've been writing about Australia for 30 years, and they could spend another 30 and still not cover it all. A single-volume encyclopedia of all things Aussie, which this books attempts to be, is a very tall order. Any such book will be necessarily summarized, and this one is no exception.
It's a good book, but its coverage of urban and suburban areas outside the major cities is thin. For example, Melbourne gets the kind of feature attention you would expect for a city of its size and importance, but the fascinating Victorian gold-rush towns of Ballarat and Bendigo get only the most summary review. Also, the authors do appeal to certain stale stereotypes when describing the cities in social context. Sydney is the easy-going beach town. Melbourne is the artsy London wannabe. Then there's progressive and snobby Adelaide; isolated, Mod-Oz boomtown Perth; sleepy Canberra, etc... While there's some truth to these observations, they become less obvious with each passing year, and few tourists are likely to understand, or even recognize these cultural traits.
Areas that stand out in this book are its treatment of outdoor activities, natural exploration and indigenous culture. Australia is an absolute playground of all things natural, and this book is sure to bring your attention to that fact.Read more ›
Australia is endlessly fascinating, as the authors of this book readily explain on multiple occasions. But all this Aussie lovliness also makes a good travel guide that much more difficult to prepare. As the authors of this book have said, they've been writing about Australia for 30 years, and they could spend another 30 and still not cover it all. A single-volume encyclopedia of all things Aussie, which this books attempts to be, is a very tall order. Any such book will be necessarily summarized, and this one is no exception.
It's a good book, but its coverage of urban and suburban areas outside the major cities is thin. For example, Melbourne gets the kind of feature attention you would expect for a city of its size and importance, but the fascinating Victorian gold-rush towns of Ballarat and Bendigo get only the most summary review. Also, the authors do appeal to certain stale stereotypes when describing the cities in social context. Sydney is the easy-going beach town. Melbourne is the artsy London wannabe. Then there's progressive and snobby Adelaide; isolated, Mod-Oz boomtown Perth; sleepy Canberra, etc... While there's some truth to these observations, they become less obvious with each passing year, and few tourists are likely to understand, or even recognize these cultural traits.
Areas that stand out in this book are its treatment of outdoor activities, natural exploration and indigenous culture. Australia is an absolute playground of all things natural, and this book is sure to bring your attention to that fact.Read more ›
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Richard R
on March 7, 2014
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I purchased the Kindle version of the LP Australia guide in preparation for a recent trip to Australia. I was attracted to the electronic version since I am am "Techie" at heart and the guide actually made good reading while on the long 15 hour flight to get from LA to Sydney. The guide covers the entire continent of Australia but my visit was limited to Sydney and surroundings, Blue Mountains, Melbourne and the Great Ocean Road; so there was a lot of unused material.
The information provided in LP is useful but is also readily obtainable locally at Tourist Guide centers, concierges, tour desks etc. My GPS also was a great resource for
Points Of Attractions and was more useful than the LP guide. Also, consider that without accessible wifi the expanded links within LP to maps etc are useless.
In hindsight now that the initial excitement of the trip is over, I could have easily done without the LP Guide since I didn't refer to it at all once I got to Australia.
A form of buyer's remorse.
The information provided in LP is useful but is also readily obtainable locally at Tourist Guide centers, concierges, tour desks etc. My GPS also was a great resource for
Points Of Attractions and was more useful than the LP guide. Also, consider that without accessible wifi the expanded links within LP to maps etc are useless.
In hindsight now that the initial excitement of the trip is over, I could have easily done without the LP Guide since I didn't refer to it at all once I got to Australia.
A form of buyer's remorse.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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James E. Forrest
on January 18, 2014
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I should have known...these kind of books where you jump around all the time, referring to the index and table of contents, looking for and at maps and picture, and so on are definitely NOT suited for the Kindle. It is a terrible medium for non-linear reading. I think the book would probably be just fine, in an actual book format. But this was a complete waste of money.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Anne-Marie Cherry
on December 26, 2013
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I use Lonely Planet guides frequently, and since the company is headquartered in Melbourne, I thought this book would be the ultimate. In general, I found the recommendations good but there could be more restaurant suggestions, especially in Sydney. The restaurants recommended in the tourist areas seemed to be the same ones recommended by many sites.
Also, the navigation on my Kindle Paperwhite was terrible. The table of contents is divided by areas, but not additionally by attractions/hotels/restaurants, so for example you might have three listings for Bondi Beach and not know which one to choose. And in order to use the offline maps, you have to go the original TOC listing and get the key (E3, for example) then back to the attraction, then to the map. Very confusing. It's like nobody there has ever tried to use the book on a Kindle.
Also, the navigation on my Kindle Paperwhite was terrible. The table of contents is divided by areas, but not additionally by attractions/hotels/restaurants, so for example you might have three listings for Bondi Beach and not know which one to choose. And in order to use the offline maps, you have to go the original TOC listing and get the key (E3, for example) then back to the attraction, then to the map. Very confusing. It's like nobody there has ever tried to use the book on a Kindle.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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John D. Wallace
on December 21, 2013
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LP is normally on the money, so much so that I use this guide despite being from Australia. They have even improved the kindle version with better resolution colour maps.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Mary Brown
on September 6, 2014
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this is the bible of all Australia travel spent the month of Aug 2014 in Australia booked my flights and hotels myself read this book twice based on this book decided what to see and where to go it tells you how to get from airport to your hotel public or taxi transportation good restaurant used it on my trip could not have made it through without it I traveled alone Sr.Citizen
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