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It's the world's smallest continent, but also its biggest island, and immense land of physical and ethnic contrasts. The multiracial reality of Australia is the result of a meeting of distant and opposing cultures - on the one hand aborigines, one of the oldest civilizations on earth, and on the other the various peoples who left Europe in the search for new hope elsewhere. This led to a clash of modern customs and ancient traditional rites, out of which emerged one of the youngest independent democratic states in the world. Australia, which Hollywood often portrays as a land of crocodile hunters and bushmen, is actually a rich, highly varied, avant-garde land, offering visitors a variety of surprises at both ethnic and cultural levels and in terms of its natural wonders. This book takes us through the scorching deserts dominated by rocks of strange shapes and unreal color, inhabited by creatures that seem to have sprung from the pen of a cartoonist whose imagination has run wild. But Australia is also a fertile. Generous land with such wonders as rain forest, waterfalls, salt lakes and the Great Barrier Reef, a magnificent coastline that fascinates visitors with the transparency of its waters and the richness of its sea beds.
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It's the world's smallest continent, but also its biggest island, and immense land of physical and ethnic contrasts. The multiracial reality of Australia is the result of a meeting of distant and opposing cultures - on the one hand aborigines, one of the oldest civilizations on earth, and on the other the various peoples who left Europe in the search for new hope elsewhere. This led to a clash of modern customs and ancient traditional rites, out of which emerged one of the youngest independent democratic states ...