Australian Country

OFF THE SHELF

HOMECAMP

DORON & STEPHANIE FRANCIS, HARDIE GRANT TRAVEL, $59.99

We can’t keep our hands off this handsome tome, in particular the cover, which features a photograph of a tent on a beach with a cliff in the background and a spectacular night sky above. It’s cleverly embossed with a dotted pathway that just begs a finger trace and communicates the endless potential of the journeys and adventures that the everyday people profiled in the book have experienced.

about the bold souls who have dared to do what others dream of: quit their jobs, packed up and moved to the bush, or another country, or a beach far away from all that is familiar. In the

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