xi 372 pages, indexed, illustrated. Overseas customers please note the book weighs over a kilo and will attract additional postage. "Traces the story of transport in Australia from the saddle horse to the motorcar, from the inter-colonial steamship and express train services to the freedom of the skies offered by the modern jet aircraft. Trains, planes, boats and cars. What did Australians do before the invention of modern transport? Aborigines travelled by foot and used canoes made from large sheets of bark stripped from eucalyptus trees, but with European settlement new ideas and technologies emerged for crossing our vast and challenging country."