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Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia

A New England-born author and journalist describes his nine-month, ten-thousand-mile journey through Australia by bicycle, detailing the cattle stations, mining towns, Aboriginal communities, rain forests, deserts, and other sights of the Australian Outback.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 284 pages

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