An endearing tale of traversing the country to encounter as wide a
cross section of Aussie society as you could ever hope to meet.
On the Road meets Down Under
in this really rough guide to the adventures of an English hitchhiker
and his reluctant French girlfriend in the Australian outback.
Their
8000 mile loop around the outback starts at the beginning of the
'Woop-Woop' and follows in the steps of great explorers. Going from
South to North before 'Going Troppo' in Australia's infamous Top End
around Darwin, down through Burke's 'Great Bugger All' through some of
the most breathtakingly beautiful and unvisited parts of the Northern
Territory, and finally completing the loop in Adelaide - where his
newly converted girlfriend is the one to suggest hitchhiking to the
airport!
As they thumb their way around the near-empty highways
they encounter as wide a cross-section of Aussie society as you could
ever hope to meet: from a yarn-spinning opal miner turned mechanic, to
a Vietnam veteran; from the grizzled Aboriginal elder with his tales of
Dreamtime, to an amphetamine-swallowing roadtrain driver.
The
Australian outback leaves an indelible mark on both their souls. They
discover a country of opportunity and uninhibited freedoms, mountains,
beaches and thousands of miles of wilderness, populated by some of the
kindest people whose pioneer spirit is still very much alive. This is
an amusing and offbeat narrative of hitchhiking into the Outback that
will charm and beguile both outback aficionados and those dreaming of
seeing the woop-woop for themselves.
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