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Travels with Bertha : two years exploring Australia in a 1978 Ford stationwagon / Paul Martin.

by Martin, Paul.

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Liberties, 2012.

Martin, Paul -- Travel -- Australia.

Automobile travel -- Australia -- Miscellanea.

Australia -- Description and travel.

9781907593420 (pbk.)

190759342X (pbk.)

224 p. : col. ill., map ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Sydney: year one -- Tasmania -- Up the Queensland Coast -- The Outback: Queensland interior, Northern Territories, South Australia and Victoria -- Sydney: year two -- Across the continent to Perth -- Western Australia -- The top end: closing the circle.

Memoir of the author's 1995 travels throughout Australia, revised in 2010 and 2011.

The story of Australia through the eyes of a young Irishman in his 1978 Ford Falcon. Paul Martin extended a one-year working holiday visa into thirty months, and lived the colorful, precarious, and occasionally solitary life of a 'backpacker' in various locations throughout Australia. He traveled (and slept) in Bertha, alone, encountering many fascinating characters and much of Australia's hidden history and landscape. "In this lighthearted travel memoir with a touch of history, Martin wittily recounts long, hot drives; stormy nights; countless bars; mechanical failures; and the generosity of strangers."-Booklist.

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