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Travels with Bertha: Two Years Exploring Australia in a 1978 Ford Station Wagon
Travels with Bertha Two Years Exploring Australia in a 1978 Ford Station Wagon Author:Paul Martin, Paul Martin The story of Australia through the eyes of a young Irishman in his 1978 Ford Falcon. Paul Martin extended a one-year working holiday visa into thirty months, and lived the colorful, precarious, and occasionally solitary life of a `backpacker' in various locations throughout Australia. He traveled (and slept) in Bertha, alone, encountering many f... more »ascinating characters and much of Australia's hidden history and landscape. ""In this lighthearted travel memoir with a touch of history, Martin wittily recounts long, hot drives; stormy nights; countless bars; mechanical failures; and the generosity of strangers.""-Booklist« less