Waltzing Australia
- ISBN-10
- 1419663062
- ISBN-13
- 9781419663062
- Category
- Australia
- Pages
- 497
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-02-28
- Publisher
- Booksurge Publishing
- Author
- Cynthia Clampitt
Description
Waltzing Australia was born out of a dream-and a journey. After walking away from her corporate career, Cynthia Clampitt headed to Australia, to start over, to write, and to test the limits of what she could do. Waltzing Australia recounts that joyous adventure. It is a story about change and about making dreams come true. But more than that, it is about Australia: the history, legends and art, both European and Aboriginal; the beauty, the challenge, the people, the land. From Sydney to Perth, Tasmania to Darwin, tropics to desert, city to wilderness, Clampitt carries the reader along on an exhilarating grand tour of a fascinating country. With a writing style reminiscent of Annie Dillard, she captures the essence of the land Down Under and invites others to fall in love with Australia.
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