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Lonely Planet Australia: Used by more than two million travellers

Lonely Planet Australia is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Snorkel at the spectacular Great Barrier Reef, watch a mystical sunset over ancient Uluru (Ayers Rock), or get rowdy with fellow Australian football fans; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Australia and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely Planet Australia Travel Guide:

• Colour maps and images throughout
• Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
• Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
• Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
• Honest reviews for all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
• Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including history, art, sports, environment, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, wine, and more
• Free, convenient pull-out Australia map (included in print version), plus over 120 local maps
• Useful features - including Walking Tours, Australia Outdoors, and Month-by-Month (annual festival calendar)
• Coverage of Perth, Western Australia, Darwin, Uluru, Adelaide, South Australia, Queensland, Great Barrier Reef, Sydney, New South Wales, Melbourne, Victoria, Canberra, Tasmania, and more

eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices)

• Zoom-in maps and images bring it all up close and in greater detail
• Downloadable PDF and offline maps let you stay offline to avoid roaming and data charges
• Seamlessly flip between pages
• Easily navigate and jump effortlessly between maps and reviews
• Speedy search capabilities get you to what you need and want to see
• Use bookmarks to help you shoot back to key pages in a flash
• Visit the websites of our recommendations by touching embedded links
• Adding notes with the tap of a finger offers a way to personalise your guidebook experience
• Inbuilt dictionary to translate unfamiliar languages and decode site-specific local terms

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Australia, our most comprehensive guide to Australia, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less travelled.

• Looking for just the highlights of Australia? Check out Lonely Planet's Discover Australia, a photo-rich guide to the country's most popular attractions.
• Looking for a guide focused on Sydney or Melbourne? Check out Lonely Planet's Sydney Guide or Lonely Planet's Melbourne & Victoria Guide for a comprehensive look at all these cities have to offer.

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Charles Rawlings-Way and Meg Worby, Brett Atkinson, Janye D'Arcy, Peter Dragicevich, Sarah Gilbert, Paul Harding, Catherine Le Nevez, Virginia Maxwell, Miriam Raphael, Regis St Louis, Steve Waters, Penny Watson.

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.

TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)

#1 bestselling guide to New Zealand*

Lonely Planet New Zealand is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Behold Rotorua's bubbling geysers, hike past aquamarine bays and sparkling glaciers, or try abalone and other Maori favorites while overlooking Auckland's waterfront; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of New Zealand and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely Planet New Zealand Travel Guide:

• Full-colour maps and images throughout
• Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
• Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
• Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
• Honest reviews for all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
• Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including history, environment, Maori customs, arts, music politics, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, wine, and more
• Free, convenient pull-out New Zealand map (included in print version), plus over 75 regional or neighbourhood maps
• Useful features - including Trekking Guide, What's New, and Month-by-Month (annual festival calendar)
• Coverage of Auckland, Bay of Islands, Coromandel Peninsula, Central Plateau, Rotorua, East Coast, Wellington, Marlborough, West Coast, Christchurch, Dunedin, Queenstown, Fiordland, Southland, and more

eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices)

• Zoom-in maps and images bring it all up close and in greater detail
• Downloadable PDF and offline maps let you stay offline to avoid roaming and data charges
• Seamlessly flip between pages
• Easily navigate and jump effortlessly between maps and reviews
• Speedy search capabilities get you to what you need and want to see
• Use bookmarks to help you shoot back to key pages in a flash
• Visit the websites of our recommendations by touching embedded links
• Adding notes with the tap of a finger offers a way to personalise your guidebook experience
• Inbuilt dictionary to translate unfamiliar languages and decode site-specific local terms

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet New Zealand, our most comprehensive guide to New Zealand, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less travelled.

• Looking for just the highlights of New Zealand? Check out Lonely Planet's Discover New Zealand, a photo-rich guide to the country's most popular attractions.
• Looking for a guide focused on just the North or South islands of New Zealand? Check out Lonely Planet's South Island Travel Guide or Lonely Planet's North Island Travel Guide for a comprehensive look at what these islands have to offer.

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Charles Rawlings-Way, Brett Atkinson, Sarah Bennett, Peter Dragicevich, Lee Slater, Professor James Belich, Tony Horwitz, John Huria, Josh Kronfeld, Gareth Shute, Nandor Tanczos, and Vaughan Yarwood.

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.

TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)

*Bestselling guide to New Zealand. Source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA, March 2011 to February 2012.

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other'. New York Times

The ultimate, most comprehensive guide to travelling in Japan includes up-to-date reviews of the best places to stay, eat, sights, cultural information, maps, transport tips and a few best kept secrets - all the essentials to get to the heart of Japan.

This guide is the result of 6 months of research by 8 dedicated authors and local experts who immersed themselves in Japan, finding unique experiences, and sharing practical and honest advice, so you come away informed and amazed.

Inside Lonely Planet Japan:

• Full color styling and images
• Over 100 clear, easy-to-read color maps
• A brilliant new page layout for fast and hassle-free reading while on the go
• Itineraries organized by region or length of trip
• Up-to-date recommended points-of-interest - covering eating, sleeping, going out, shopping, activities and attractions
• In-depth features and 3D plans to uncover the world's iconic sights
• Our latest trip planning tools to help you get around smoothly
• Additional sections including Top Experiences, Skiing, History, Food, People, Culture, Language, and an A-Z survival guide.

Special enhancements

• Scalable maps - enabling you to zoom in for greater detail
• Comprehensive interlinking - more than 1,000 links to enable you to seamlessly flip between pages, jump between maps and reviews, or visit the websites of places we recommend
• Search - go straight to what you are looking for with the inbuilt search capability
• Add notes - touch a word to add notes and personalize your guidebook
• Bookmark - use bookmarks to quickly return to a page
• Dictionary -look up the meaning of any word
• Plus pinch and zoom images and scalable font size

Written and researched by Chris Rowthorn, Andrew Bender, Laura Crawford, Matthew D Firestone, Timothy Hornyak, Rebecca Milner, Brandon Presser, Tom Spurling

• Full color styling and images
• Clear, easy-to-read color maps
• A brilliant new page layout for fast and hassle-free reading while on the go
• Itineraries organized by region or length of trip
• Up-to-date recommended points-of-interest - covering eating, sleeping, going out, shopping, activities and attractions
• In-depth features to uncover the world's iconic sights
• Hundreds of money saving tips
• Our latest trip planning tools to help you get around smoothly
• Additional sections including Top Experiences, Diving in the Philippines, History, Culture, Food, and an A-Z survival guide.

Special eBook enhancements

• Scalable maps - enabling you to zoom in for greater detail
• Comprehensive interlinking - enabling you to seamlessly flip between pages, jump between maps and reviews, or visit the websites of places we recommend
• Search - go straight to what you are looking for with the inbuilt search capability
• Add notes - touch a word to add notes and personalize your guidebook
• Bookmark - use bookmarks to quickly return to a page
• Dictionary - look up the meaning of any word
• Plus pinch and zoom images and scalable font size

Written and researched by Greg Bloom, Adam Karlin, Kate Morgan, Trent Holden, Michael Grosberg

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. Considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, the story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by the brooding Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out and take revenge against Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale that crippled him and destroyed his boat in a previous encounter.