This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisoners to Australia rather than to prisons.
Amateur Traveler Podcast is a show about traveling for the love of travel.
Discover a world of wild, mysterious and audacious journeys. In Wild Journeys Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps...
The famed travel writer and author of In Patagonia traverses Australia, exploring Aboriginal culture and song - and humanity's origins.
This is an early history of the failed attempt to found the colony of North Australia at Gladstone, in what is now Central Queensland.
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...
Go back in time and experience Darwin through the day of the first Japanese air raid attack on Australia, with the ABC Bombing of Darwin Walking Tour.
Ed Stafford - adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River - likes a challenge.
The iconic Sydney to Hobart Race, a 723-mile deepwater challenge - often called the 'Everest' of offshore ocean racing - is considered one of the toughest in the world....