Travel Guides
p. 89 · Read in the full issue
New Australian Travel Guides
TWO new books in the series of Jacaranda Travel Guides are The Blue Mountains, by Patricia Rolfe, and The South Coast of New South Wales, by Jean Stranger. The Blue Mountains are just west of Sydney and are popular tourist spots.
The Jacaranda guides, published by Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, tell you how to get there, how to enjoy yourself, where to stay and give detailed local history. Good maps and plenty of photographs, some in full colour, make them useful little books, and attractive additions to any library for future reference.
Presumably the publishers would sell more books if their prices were lower. Twenty-seven and six is quite a lot of money for a travel guide.
A guide of a different kind is Australia ’65, a big format book of full-colour photographs taken from one end of Australia to the other, and selling for only 7/6d. The text is merely by the way—the photo graphs make it. They were selected, and the book compiled, by Bob Hewlett, formerly of the Fiji Visitors Bureau, and now running his own publicity and travel firm in Sydney. The publishers are John Sands Pty. Ltd., of Sydney.
Australia ’65 is designed as an overseas gift, or as a souvenir booklet for travellers to Australia.