Reader's Digest guide to the Australian Coast

By Robert Pullan and Reader's Digest Services Pty.

No Synopsis Available.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0909486972
• ISBN13: 9780909486976
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Services Pty
• Length: 479 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A big coastline, a big book

A handsome book, with aerial photos of nearly every part of the Australian coastline. It is more than that as well, containing an introductory section on how coasts are made, life along the seashore, shells, beaches, rocky coasts, rockpools, wetlands, coral reefs, fish and birds. Part 2 is about the ocean and the weather. Each section of coast includes a regional map, and text introducing the area, including natural features, climatic information, leisure facilities like picnic grounds, parks, camping grounds etc. Small articles about particularly interesting phenomena accompany the text. For example, in the section from Shute Harbour to Airlie in Qld there is an article on cane toads. I recommend it as a good companion on a driving holiday (far too big and heavy for a backpack), and as a good reference book at home.