Gebrauchsanweisung für Australien

Joscha Remus's guide to Australia, part of Piper's long-running "Gebrauchsanweisung" (user's manual) series, sidesteps the usual list of sights in favor of the country's mentality, humor, and self-image. It's less concerned with itineraries than with why Australians talk the way they do, and what makes the place feel the way it does to an outsider.

Remus writes about Australia as a surfer's paradise where clouds and rock formations loom like giant waves, and about Sydney's reputation as one of the world's great "feel-good capitals." Drawing on his decades of travel writing across more than twenty books, he brings the same wry, personal tone that defines the Gebrauchsanweisung series to a country he clearly knows well beyond the postcard version.