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FOR the past 30 years, Australia’s travel writers have been living out of suitcases, professional nomads combing the continent and the world searching for stories that have informed, enticed and cautioned Australian travellers, bringing home a view of the world and its current holiday hot spots as seen through a uniquely antipodean lens.

In this anthology, published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Australian Society of Travel Writers, Australia’s best travel writers share their passion for discovering more about the world we live in. Join adventurer David McGonigal as he mourns the loss of Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas and John Borthwick recalling the sweet naivete of Bali in the early 80s, while almost a decade later Ian Crawshaw scrambles to get out of China in the aftermath of the Tianamen Square massacre, Marc Llewellyn takes a disturbing tour of a Russian nuclear power station and Susan Kurosawa details the plight of tigers in India. In more recent years, Mark Chipperfield looks at the burgeoning tourist industry in East Timor and John Maddocks documents his brush with death as the 2004 tsunami engulfed southern Sri Lanka.

While many of the journeys related in this collection are made to exotic climes – Glenn A. Baker mixes it with the wigmen of Papua New Guinea, Mark Dapin learns Spanish in Cuba, Bill Peach reflects on the mysteries of Easter Island, Diane Armstrong tackles the Himalayan peaks and Mike O’Connor takes a languid look at Laos – we’ve not forgotten the joys of travel in Australia. Ann Rickard’s hilarious account of her sun-drenched family holidays on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula in the early 80s is one that everyone who’s had, or been, a child can relate to.

Best Foot Forward will inspire you to travel and to look at travel in a different light

Best foot forward: 30 years of Australian Travel Writing.

ISBN: 0734409273

Edited by Lee Atkinson and Lee Mylne. Lothian Books. Available at all good bookstores August 2006.
RRP $29.95