Bryson, Bill. In a Sunburned Country. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2000.
The humorous American travel writer Bill Bryson describes his travels around and across Australia, and writes of the people, history, landscape and wildlife in an unforgettable way.

Conway, Jill Ker. The Road from Coorain. New York: Vintage, 1990.
Conway, who has lived in Canada and now lives in the United States, writes about growing up on an Australian sheep station in the 1930s and 1940s.

Davidson, Robyn. Tracks : A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback. New York: Vintage, 1995.
Davidson, a native of Queensland, spent nine months travelling by camel through the Australian outback and tells of her experiences and emotions during the trip.

Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868. London: Pan Books, 1988.
A well-written and carefully researched history of the settlement of Australia.

Malouf, David. Remembering Babylon. New York: Vintage, 1994.
A novel set in Australia in the 19th century. A young boy is cast ashore in Northern Australia and raised by Aborigines, but when he is a young man he is found by European settlers, who take him in.

WEB SITES

http://www.csu.edu.au/australia
http://www.about-australia.com
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz