On Holidays: A history of getting away in Australia
Pluto Press, $32.95 pb, 250 pp
The Cities Book: A journey through the best cities in the world
Lonely Planet, $79.95 hb, 428 pp
On the upswing
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.
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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
by Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet, $79.95 hb, 428 pp
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