Oh no! You've been bitten by an inland taipan? Don't worry, The Australia Survival Guide has the first-aid advice you need! What's that? You're lost in the bush and need to know how to collect your own water? The Australia Survival Guide has got you covered. Our amazing country has its fair share of dangers- sharks, snakes, cyclones and crocodiles can be a serious threat to your life! But don't worry. This book will help you by providing the knowledge you need to survive in all kinds of Aussie conditions - in the bush, in the desert or even at the beach! So get out there and look around! Even if you think Australia is trying to kill you, The Australia Survival Guide can save your life!
This resource covers the basic and essential information the author and his family learned in order to survive their first few years living in Australia. It can help readers avoid making the same embarrassing mistakes and asking the same dumb questions they did. Included is a 1,500-word Australian-American dictionary. (Foreign Travel)
While I traveled Australia, I was a very naive person. Only in retrospect I realized that many times I had gotten myself into dangerous situations and only got through them thanks to luck, intuition and well-meaning fellow people. This book contains my first-hand advice to support you in returning from traveling safely, healthy and - above all - alive. Each advice is illustrated with tales and anecdotes about how I learned it. Also available in German: ISBN 978-1512249958 At first, Australia may seem quite homelike to you - but this misapprehension can cost your life. The greatest source of danger is: you yourself - and that's what I'm starting this book with. Further, it's about dangers posed by other people, by Australia's cliche-dangers (animals, climate, natural disasters) and from getting around. As to not deter you entirely from traveling in Australia, this book closes with my most beautiful experiences. Here's a summary of the most important advice for readers impatient or just browsing: 1.) Wear sunscreen like a second skin. 2.) Keep distance from wild animals. 3.) Keep distance from where wild animals dwell (Which is pretty much everywhere). 4.) At night, refrain from driving your car outsides of settlements. There's nothing to see anyway - and if you do, it's likely to be too late. 5.) Don't listen to racists. they're just mean people. 6.) Take more water with you than you think you need. You'll need it. 7.) Always stay with the car. Rescue teams spot stranded cars earlier than lost wanderers. 8.) Marmite is great. It might tastes like the opposite of Nutella, but it helps to repel bloodsucking insects. 9.) Read warning signs in detail. Someone paid for them - just to save you. 10.) If it's risky at home, it's risky any place else. 11.) Tell someone where you go and when you plan to be there, then inform them once you got there. 12.) Always pack a jumper and a piece of cord."
This non-fiction book contains hard-earned advice on how to travel Australia and return home safe, healthy and, above all, alive. Each advice is illustrated with stories during which I learned them. They're all from my own travels - conducted back when I was still a naive, young person. The advices are grouped and sorted by source and extent of the hazard. The biggest risk gets explained first: You. Followed by: Other people, then companies and organizations. Finally (and only then) australian cliche hazards: animals, weather, geography, natural disasters. And, since you'll be travelling: transportation - alone, with others, during hikes or group travel. For example, I explain how to properly apply sunscreen (in short: every other hour, nighttime excluded) and tell about how I got a (natural!) tan while it rained. I explain to outsiders why Vegemite is good for you (and a funny way to spot the non-initiated). Don't drive a car at night - I did, and I'm listing everything I barely missed (the least of that were animals). You might have been told the Police was there "to protect and to serve" but they don't always live up to that - I witnessed them arresting those needing help! Don't hitchhike - I tried that unsuccessfully for hours even though I were in busy places - and I'm telling you about that so you won't get lost in remote Australia or meet a serial killer. Animals aren't accustomed to meeting humans since the country is so spacious, so they just treat people like terrain and run across them. Road Trains aren't long trucks, but deadly avalanches - unless one makes a step to the side. And I explain the importance of carrying sufficient water - because the Outback isn't just blue skies and wide open space, but the largest sauna in the world! In short: Although Australia seems to be like home. it is not. This misapprehension can cost you your life. Finally, in order not completely deter the reader from traveling, I'm recounting several good experiences. For example about the drunken, gargantuan Aborigines who found my tiny elderly mother who got lost at night when visiting, and how they carefully guided her like a child. And about three tourists, standing alone at night in the middle of the desert, with a fresh glass of champagne under the stars. For readers impatient or just browsing, I here summarize advice I deem most important: * Take preventive measures. * What is unsafe to do at home is unsafe away from home. * Let someone you trust know where you're going so they can alert someone should you not arrive as planned. Tell them who to call - and then contact them when you're back in safety. * Read warning signs and follow their advice. Someone spent money and effort to put them there to save you. Recognize places and situations where no warning sign has been put up but should have been. * Drink plenty of water and bring sufficient supplies. * Wear sunscreen. * Bring a jumper.
Essential reading for anyone planning to live or work in Australia and the most up-to-date source of practical information available about everyday life. It's guaranteed to hasten your introduction to the Australian way of life, and, most importantly, will save you time, trouble and money! The best-selling and most comprehensive book about living and working in Australia since it was first published in 1998, containing up to three times as much information as similar books!
Visiting the Australian outback can be a wonderful experience, but it isn't all about boomerangs and koalas, kangaroos and didgeridoos. It can be a wild and dangerous place if you're not prepared. Here is the essential travel companion for enduring the toughest stuff this rugged continent can offer -- a veritable survivor's guide to managing the unexpected when you're Down Under. Renowned Australian adventurer and bestselling author Sorrel Wilby provides you with the basic lessons on negotiating your way through the bush, across the outback, over the top end, and into the surf and sea. You'll get important lifesaving information on: where you should and shouldn't be driving your Range Rover dealing with natural hazards like river crossings, bush fires, storms, and rips warding off snakes, scorpions, crocs, and sharks encountering Aboriginal people, Bushies, Eccentrics, and Surfers finding food and water treating heatstroke, hypothermia, and tropical infections identifying proper emergency radio frequencies and much more!
'a guidebook that might just save your life' HERALD SUN Bob Cooper's incredible bushcraft skills have been developed through more than 30 years of experience in Australia's harsh outback. He has picked up tools of survival from the experiences of living with traditional Aboriginal communities, instructing Special Forces units, lecturing with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Service on desert survival in the Mexican Desert, delivering wilderness lessons in the UK and learning the skills of the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. Bob has put his own lessons to the test and showed that with the right knowledge of the land, you can survive in even the harshest of conditions. OUTBACK SURVIVAL tells you WHAT you need to do, and HOW, if you want to survive. Based on Bob's Big 5 techniques, he explains: WATER - how to find, purify and transport WARMTH - fire and wind-proofing SHELTER - against rain, cold, wind and sun SIGNALS - by day and night FOOD - foraging and fishing This new edition also features Bob's OUTBACK DRIVING guide. The outback of Australia is one of the most unforgiving regions of the world, but Bob Cooper is committed to protecting and enhancing the experience people have when venturing out into the bush.
