Library week - Libraries Your passport to discovery

The theme for Australian Library and Information week this year isLibraries your passport to discovery. To Help celebrate the library has a display on travelling. You can go anywhere and everywhere without leaving your armchair when you check out some of these resources!!!

• Other countries
  
  

China – World in Focus
Indonesia – world in Focus
The World Book encyclopaedia of people and places
Longman atlas

• Immigration/Refugees
  
  

The changing face of Australia : a century of immigration 1901-2000
Refugees and asylum seekers – Issues in Society
Destination Australia : migration to Australia since 1901 - Eric Richards recounts the experiences of many individual migrants from all over the world, examines the drama and challenges of officials involved in the grand immigration experiment to Australia.
Story of migration to Australia.- beautifully presented series that tells the story of why people have come to Australia
Per l'Australia : the story of Italian migration - Per l'Australia is the story of Italian settlement, from as early as 1788 through to World War II and beyond. It is the story of Italians who fled war, persecution and poverty for a better life in Australia. From struggling to build a new home, to suffering internment and POW camps, to burgeoning employment and thriving prosperity, Italians have fearlessly adapted to their new homeland. The joys and frustrations of their new life are captured here in a rich mix of personal anecdotes and history, private mementos and captivating photographs.

• Holidays Overseas
  
  

Europe on a shoestring - the lonely planet guide – big trips on a shoe string.

• Travelling Australia
  
  

Explore wild Australia with the bush tucker man
Watkin Tench's 1788 : comprising A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay and A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson – first hand account from an officer of the first British settlement in Australia
Australia : an ecotraveller's guide – provides information on wildlife and national parks to see and visit in Australia
Classic walks of Australia – reference guide to the best bush walks in Australia

• Travel memoirs
  
  
  

Angels & dark Madonnas: travels in India and Italy by Kate LLelwyn
The dig tree : the story of Burke and Wills – Sarah Murgatroyd tells the disastrous story of Burke and wills
Holy cow : an Indian adventure - Sarah Macdonald Explores with an amusing eye some humorous spiritual adventures in India
Lost in transmission - Jonathon Harley tells the story of being a correspondent in Troubled parts of Asia
The bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad spends four months living with a bookseller and his family in Kabul fowlloing the fall of the Taliban
Almost French : a new life in Paris – Sarah Turnbull finds love in Paris
Good morning Hanoi : a year on the airwaves in the new Vietnam – Iain Finlay and Trish Clark describe their twelve months in Vietnam working for the communist fun radio station
Sing, and don't cry : a Mexican journal – Cate Kennedy lives in a small farming community in Mexico for a year
At the drop of a veil – the true story of an American woman’s years in a Saudi Arabian harem by Marianne Akireza
I left my heart in Chinkapook and my knickers in New York - Kerry cues humorous reflections on Travel
Burqa and a hard place : three years in the new Afghanistan – Sally cooper gives us a humorous recounts her experiences of working with an Aid organisation Afghanistan just after the Taliban lose control.
Lionheart : a journey of the human spirit – Jesse Martin recounts his adventure as the youngest person to sail solo, non stop and unassisted around the world
The Wrong way home - Peter Moore announced he was going to travel home from London to Sydney without stepping on a plane.

• Travel writing
  
  

Best Travel Writing 2008 – True Stories from around the World
The good alternative travel guide : exciting holidays for responsible travellers
Worst journeys : the Picador book of travel