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24 books recommended for fans of Sydney Observed by Gavin Souter, tied together by themes of Australia & New Zealand, Australia & Oceania, and Travel.

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Voyage De Découvertes Aux Terres Australes Exécuté Sur Les Corvettes “Le Géographe”, “Le Naturaliste”, Et La Goëlette “Le Casuarina” Pendant Les Années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 Et 1804 … Historiqe Tome Second — François Péron

Voyage De Découvertes Aux Terres Australes Exécuté Sur Les Corvettes “Le Géographe”, “Le Naturaliste”, Et La Goëlette “Le Casuarina” Pendant Les Années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 Et 1804 … Historiqe Tome Second

François Péron

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

The Landsman’s Logbook Or An Emigrant’s Life At Sea With Some Account Of South Australia (1842) — John Hayter

The Landsman’s Logbook Or An Emigrant’s Life At Sea With Some Account Of South Australia (1842)

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Scenic New Zealand — Kathy Ombler

Scenic New Zealand

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

The Sea Letter: A Mystery Of Martha’s Vineyard (1901) — William Henry Winslow

The Sea Letter: A Mystery Of Martha’s Vineyard (1901)

William Henry Winslow

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Carpenter’s Geographical Reader Our Colonies, And Other Islands Of The Sea. Australia — Frank George Carpenter

Carpenter’s Geographical Reader Our Colonies, And Other Islands Of The Sea. Australia

Frank George Carpenter

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Australia, From Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay With Descriptions of the Natives, Their Manners and Customs, the Geology, Natural Productions, Fertility, and Resources of That Region; First Explored and Surveyed by Order of the Colonial Government — Clement Hodgkinson

Australia, From Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay With Descriptions of the Natives, Their Manners and Customs, the Geology, Natural Productions, Fertility, and Resources of That Region; First Explored and Surveyed by Order of the Colonial Government

Clement Hodgkinson

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Waves Of The Sea And Other Water Waves (1910) — Vaughan Cornish

Waves Of The Sea And Other Water Waves (1910)

Vaughan Cornish

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Casual Cyclist’s Guide To Melbourne Routes, Rides, Rants And Raves About The City And The Bike — Matt Hurst

Casual Cyclist’s Guide To Melbourne Routes, Rides, Rants And Raves About The City And The Bike

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Discoveries in Australia — John Lort Stokes

Discoveries in Australia

John Lort Stokes

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Recent Wanderings In Fiji Glimpses Of Its Villages, Churches, And Schools — William Reed

Recent Wanderings In Fiji Glimpses Of Its Villages, Churches, And Schools

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

The Blue Plateau An Australian Pastoral — Mark Tredinnick

The Blue Plateau An Australian Pastoral

Mark Tredinnick

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

The Arctic North-East and West Passage. Detectio Freti Hudsoni Or Hessel Gerritsz’s Collection of Tracts by Himself, Massa and Dequir On the N.E. and W. Passage, Siberia and Australia — Hessel Gerritsz

The Arctic North-East and West Passage. Detectio Freti Hudsoni Or Hessel Gerritsz’s Collection of Tracts by Himself, Massa and Dequir On the N.E. and W. Passage, Siberia and Australia

Hessel Gerritsz

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

The Inn By The Sea (1914) — Charlotte Elvira Gray

The Inn By The Sea (1914)

Charlotte Elvira Gray

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Travels in New Zealand; Volume I — Ernst Dieffenbach

Travels in New Zealand; Volume I

Ernst Dieffenbach

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Twenty Months in Southland 1867-69 An Early Account of Southland’s People, Settlements, and Landscape — A. Tasmanian

Twenty Months in Southland 1867-69 An Early Account of Southland’s People, Settlements, and Landscape

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

New Zealand — Dk Travel

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Reed Illustrated History of New Zealand — Matthew Wright

Reed Illustrated History of New Zealand

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Pity the Swagman The Australian Odyssey of a Victorian Diarist — Bethan Phillips

Pity the Swagman The Australian Odyssey of a Victorian Diarist

Bethan Phillips

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

In a Sunburned Country — Bill Bryson

In a Sunburned Country

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Far Off Or Asia Described V1: With Anecdotes And Numerous Illustrations (1869) — Favell Lee Mortimer

Far Off Or Asia Described V1: With Anecdotes And Numerous Illustrations (1869)

Favell Lee Mortimer

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Rolling Thunder The Spirit of Karekare — Bob Harvey

Rolling Thunder The Spirit of Karekare

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Songs Of Sea And Sail (1898) — Thomas Fleming Day

Songs Of Sea And Sail (1898)

Thomas Fleming Day

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

The Spas Of England And Principal Sea-Bathing Places: Southern Spas — A. B. Granville

The Spas Of England And Principal Sea-Bathing Places: Southern Spas

A. B. Granville

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

Explorations in Australia — John McDouall Stuart

Explorations in Australia

John McDouall Stuart

Themes: Australia & New Zealand • Australia & Oceania • Travel

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