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On the upswing

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August 2006, no. 283

On Holidays: A history of getting away in Australia by Richard White

Pluto Press, $32.95 pb, 250 pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

The Cities Book: A journey through the best cities in the world by Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet, $79.95 hb, 428 pp

On the upswing

by
August 2006, no. 283

Despite the rhetoric of globalisation, it is impossible to buy an airline ticket online in the United States with a credit card issued abroad. When I needed a ticket from Boston to Washington last year, and after numerous unsuccessful arguments with airline websites and 1800 numbers, I dropped into the local Harvard travel agency. There was a welcome familiarity in discovering that it was a branch of STA, one of more than 400 branches operated around the world by the Australian-based company.

On Holidays: A history of getting away in Australia

On Holidays: A history of getting away in Australia

by Richard White

Pluto Press, $32.95 pb, 250 pp

The Cities Book: A journey through the best cities in the world

The Cities Book: A journey through the best cities in the world

by Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet, $79.95 hb, 428 pp

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