There are very few places to swim in Kakadu – the tourist guide officially recommends the Jabiru public pool only – and most are here in the Mary river region.
Although it smacks a little of the tourist guide in places, The Axeman's Jazz manages, nevertheless, to be both a fascinating portrait of a vibrant and volatile city and a riveting read.
I employed the tourist guide technique while taking pictures of signs in the school buildings.
Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng, A People's Guide to Los Angeles -- This isn't the tourist guide that the LA Chamber of Commerce wants you to read.
Visiting the Balkans, particularly, Bosnia and Herzegovina, I remember the tourist guide sliding away from her story and saying emotionally both to herself and to us: "Only a few years after the war, everybody realized how useless this conflict was, and how bad the consequences were".
When you research for information, you can make use of all sources such as people, magazines, internet etc. Make sure that the tourist guide is a local person.
Even the patter of the tourist guides reflects the changing cultural terrain.
Resist the tourist guides, get a map and a guidebook – and be independent.
Indeed, many of the palaces holding such collections were open to visitors and were listed in the tourist guides of the period.
The historian Henry Reynolds' new book, Forgotten War, should sit alongside the tourist guides to Australia and be on the curriculum of every school across the country.
