Drawn directly from the author's extraordinary experiences over the course of a nine-month, 10,000-mile bicycle odyssey around Australia, this thoroughly engaging travel memoir offers an uncommonly intimate glimpse into the heart of the land down under. Immersing readers in all the excitement and anticipation of a nation facing the challenges of a new century, <i>Cold Beer and Crocodiles</i> is a deeply affectionate portrayal of this most alluring continent.<br /><p><br />In 1996, award-winning American author and expatriate journalist Roff Smith set off, a lone man on a 21-speed touring bicycle, seeking to lose himself amid the cattle stations, mining towns, aboriginal communities, rainforests, and desert campsites of Australia.
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