Out Back: Adventures of an Intrepid Interloper in Australia

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"Minimum standard of dress will be shorts and singlet (Dress code: Nauiyu Nambiyu Club)". Join Andrew Stevenson as he ventures off the east-coast tourist trail in search of the real Australia - and real Australians. Boldly going where few have gone before, and drinking in bars that even most locals avoid, Andrew combines his fascination with people and places with a wicked sense of humour to reveal a unique side of this wide, brown land. Meet Neat!Wow!, the excitable Chinese Canadian who breaks his foot, forcing him to wear ducky pajama pants as he hobbles across the top end - and his laconic travel guide, Croc, who insists he's just being a "wuss"; grow to know and fear the "pear-shaped people" who run every roadhouse from Kuranda to Jabiru; fly out to Chillagoe to share a frozen scone with Nola the hospital caretaker or have a beer with Smithy, local jackaroo and bush poet. All these characters and more bring outback Australia to life.

Author Bio

Andrew Stevenson has lived in more than ten countries and travelled through many more, working as an international economist for two Canadian banks before joining the United Nations Development Program in Tanzania where he obtained his pilot s licence and started his own safari company. He has subsequently worked as financial advisor and consultant in international development and was the owner of two adventure companies in Norway. Andrew is currently in the process of emigrating to New Zealand with his wife Annabel and their new born daughter. Today he is a full-time writer. This is his fifth book.