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Jul 10, Bec rated it it was amazing. Review to come to hard to do on my phone. Unfortunately, this is more on the boring side of things than being a riveting travelogue. I kind of expected Williams to have packed up her car and travelled around Australia in one long trip, taking several months or whatever. But not so, she takes like 50 different trips into the outback, flying into Longreach in Queensland and then back to Sydney; then later to mining towns in WA and back; to Lake Eyre in South Australia and back, etc.

Here and there she hires a 4WD and explores places by ro Unfortunately, this is more on the boring side of things than being a riveting travelogue. Here and there she hires a 4WD and explores places by road but I've found her approach a bit weird, perhaps she didn't want to be away from home for too long. It just must have cost a fortune! Parts of it were quite interesting but Williams' forages into the Australian outback suffer from three things that really detracted from my overall enjoyment: She reads way too fast and gives you little sense of what other people sound like.

Everybody sounds the same, which is some odd version of herself and just doesn't work. She meets so many different characters and I really don't want a year old outback pub owner sounding like a naive English woman; and 3 She's incredibly naive or appears to be. And then realises that there isn't anything left and she has to sleep in some shed motel What did endear her to me was that she was vegetarian and a tee drinker Whilst it wasn't the riveting read I had expected, it has fueled my ever increasing passion to travel into remote Australia; when can I pack up the car and go exploring?!!

Feb 07, Yarra rated it really liked it. This book is interesting, well written and has a lot of useful information if you plan to visit the Outback. Towards the end it losses its power and is becoming a little too repetitive and boring. As the author visits all those places alone and always with some specific intentions I missed some kind of surprise, adventure and spirit of travel.

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Apr 26, Mike rated it liked it. Sue Williams writes an easy reading account of her time in the outback of Australia, doing all the things a good tourist might. She's got heart and even though she's a vegetarian, teetotaler, she seems to get in on the latest 'goss' in every town and near every swag she encounters.

Jul 23, Annie Smith rated it it was amazing. Enjoyed this lady's story very much. Nov 09, Cheryl rated it liked it. Listened to this audio book while driving the Gibb River Rd.

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A great entertaining "read" and insight into outback towns and life. Jun 03, Clare Cannon added it.

Interesting, but this book and I have different philosophies of life, especially when it came to the chapter on life in an outback brothel. She took part in the droving of head of cattle through Queensland and got rolled by her horse. She helped pregnancy-test cattle at a remote property in the far north of South Australia, swallowed countless flies and ran through muddy dams carrying a pretend-sheep on her shoulders in an outback Ironwoman challenge.

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She boxed a kg woman in outback Queensland in Fred Brophy's Outback fight club. She saw the country in drought, in flood, between swarms of locusts and a mice plague, mixing with old drovers, new backpackers, overseas tourists, Australians out to see their country, grey nomads, new settlers and old-timers. As she says, 'Somehow, I survived. And eventually found the heart of Australia in the most unlikely place of all. Only registered users can write reviews. Ever curious, this time Sue puts herself in the firing line, seeking to find the essence of the outback experience - perfect for all us armchair travellers.

She travelled the width and length of Australia by bus, train, car, campervan, Troopy, horse, goat, foot, and plane. She helped pregnancy-test cattle at a remote property in the far north of South Australia, swallowed countless flies, and ran through muddy dams carrying a pretend-sheep on her shoulders in an outback Ironwoman challenge. She saw the country in drought, in flood, between swarms of locusts and a mice plague, mixing with old drovers, new backpackers, overseas tourists, new settlers and old-timers.

The narrator had a heavy Aussie accent and spoke a bit quickly and used some strange Aussie slang in the beginning,but after some time I adapted to this. There were some great introductions to things like the drovers,who were the cowboys of Australia and led very austere lives while being free in the vast emptiness of the desert. The opal miners in Coober Pedy that were in search of get rich quick schemes that didn't always pan out.

The Grey Nomads,who are basically pensioners that wander Australia after retirement. My favorite part was where Sue takes some boxing training for a mere two weeks and then competes in a Tough Man contest,where she doesn't fare so badly. She takes on a lot of challenging,adventurous things in this book and at an advanced age. Things that many men would hesitate to try. She does this with a self-deprecating humor that gives the book a kind of charm.


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