On Tap

On Tap
Author: Mark McKay
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781862544734

On Tap delves into the annals of pub-lore to discover funny, sad, illuminating and intriguing episodes and incidents in the life of this great Australian institution. The author has collected anecdotes, serious history, folklore tall stories and urban myths about Australians and pubs.

The Rough Guide to Melbourne

The Rough Guide to Melbourne
Author: Rough Guides
Publisher: Rough Guides UK
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 184836623X

The Rough Guide to Melbourne is the ultimate travel guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best attractions Melbourne has to offer. Discover Melbourne's coolest bars and the hippest Melbourne hotels to the immense changes to the fabric of the city itself. Packed with detailed, practical advice on what to see and do in Melbourne, get the lowdown on Melbourne's renowned live music and club scenes and whet your appetite for its restaurants with a insert on its eclectic multicultural cuisine for all budgets. Features include detailed coverage on the lively Melbourne city centre and dynamic outer suburbs; the cafes of Fitzroy, Prahran and South Yarra shopping, and the beaches of St Kilda to wine tasting tours of the Yarra Valley and road trips along the magnificent Great Ocean Road. You'll find authoritative background on Melbourne's history, film and books. Explore all corners of Australia's fastest growing city, with the clearest Melbourne maps, street plans and tram and train maps of any guide. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Melbourne.

Insight Guides Explore Melbourne (Travel Guide eBook)

Insight Guides Explore Melbourne (Travel Guide eBook)
Author: Insight Guides
Publisher: Apa Publications (UK) Limited
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2018-07-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1786719711

Pocket-sized books to inspire your on-foot exploration of top international destinations. Experience the best of Melbourne with this indispensably practical Insight Guides Explore book. From making sure you don't miss out on must-see attractions like the Melbourne Cricket Ground to discovering hidden gems, including the Great Ocean Road, the easy-to-follow, ready-made walking routes will help you plan your trip, save you time, and enhance your exploration of this fascinating city. Practical, pocket-sized and packed with inspirational insider information, this will make the ideal on-the-move companion for your trip to Melbourne Enjoy over 14 irresistible Best Routes to walk, from Collins Street to Yarra Valley Features concise insider information about landscape, history, food and drink, and entertainment options Invaluablemaps: each Best Route is accompanied by a detailed full-colour map, while the large pull-out map provides an essential overview of the area Discover your destination's must-see sights and hand-picked hidden gems Directory section provides invaluable insight into top accommodation, restaurant and nightlife options by area, along with an overview of language, books and films Includes an innovative extra that's unique in the market - all Explore Guides come with a free eBook Inspirational colour photography throughout About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer offull-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishinghigh-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. Weproduce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as phrasebooks, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs.Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus onhistory and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool toinspire your next adventure.

Maverick Guide to Australia

Maverick Guide to Australia
Author: Robert W. Bone
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1996
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781565541511

For the independent traveler, the Maverick Guides include history, customs, language, and attractions as well as current prices and recommendations, dining spots, and recreational facilities that fit individual budgets and needs. You can count on Maverick Guides to include information on -- Sightseeing -- Hotels -- Current Prices -- Guided Tours -- Shopping and Dining -- Entertainment -- Recreation -- Transportation -- Sports -- Weather -- Currency Exchange "This is an excellent, comprehensive guide, invaluable to the traveler". Australian Bulletin Australian Embassy, Washington, D.C. A fully updated version, the eleventh edition portrays Australia as an alluring, yet accessible, vacation destination. Travelers with a penchant for the extraordinary will find valuable information on the "do's" -- and just as important, the "don'ts" -- of an Australian vacation.

Melbourne Circle

Melbourne Circle
Author: Nick Gadd
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2021-07-23
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1922454079

Over two years, writer Nick Gadd and his wife Lynne circled the city of Melbourne on foot, starting at Williamstown and ending in Port Melbourne. Along the way they uncovered lost buildings, secret places and mysterious signs that told of forgotten stories and curious characters from the past. Soon after they completed the circle, Lynne passed away from cancer. Melbourne Circle is the story of their journey, a memoir, and a stunning meditation on personal loss. ‘What a gem this book is! Oddity, wonderment, weirdness: these splendid essays reveal a marvellous Melbourne most of us have never encountered before. This is a psychogeography dense with vernacular history, humane detail, and from beneath the shadow of grief, love.’ –­ Gail Jones, author of Five Bells and The Death of Noah Glass ‘‘‘Psychojogging”’ and the pleasures of walking.’ – interview with Hilary Harper on Radio National, Life Matters ‘Marvellous Melbourne: the books that capture our city and its life.’ – The Age/Sydney Morning Herald ‘Melbourne Circle: Walking, Memory and Loss is a very special book. Just read it, and then take to the streets and walk with the same spirit of enquiry.’ – Sophie Cunningham, The Age ‘A beautiful meditation on the streets in which we live, ghosts, love and loss … While there is sadness in this book, Gadd writes with warmth, humour and a generosity of spirit.’ – Stephen Romei, The Weekend Australian ‘An endearing book about enduring love and serendipitous discoveries; of remnants of the past pasted onto old buildings, and the way these ghost signs are portals into another time.’ – The Saturday Paper

The Getting of Garlic

The Getting of Garlic
Author: John Newton
Publisher: NewSouth
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2018-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 174224436X

The white colonisers of Australia suffered from Alliumphobia, a fear of garlic. Local cooks didn’t touch the stuff and it took centuries for that fear to lift. This food history of Australia shows we held onto British assumptions about produce and cooking for a long time and these fed our views on racial hierarchies and our place in the world. Before Garlic we had meat and potatoes; After Garlic what we ate got much more interesting. But has a national cuisine emerged? What is Australian food culture? Renowned food writer John Newton visits haute cuisine or fine dining restaurants, the cafes and mid-range restaurants, and heads home to the dinner tables as he samples what everyday people have cooked and eaten over centuries. His observations and recipes old and new, show what has changed and what hasn’t changed as much as we might think even though our chefs are hailed as some of the best in the world.