travel writer, editor, photographer
35 of the world’s ultimate road trips, spanning the globe from outback Australia to Iceland, South Africa to the Canadian Rockies and many points in between, including islands in the South Pacific, scenic drives in Thailand and Japan and right to the end of the …
Just in time for some summertime fun, Ultimate Coastal Road Trips Australia is a comprehensive guide to 40 of Australia’s best coastal road trips. The perfect companion volume to Ultimate Road Trips Australia, the road trips featured in this book – including some of the country’s iconic islands …
40 of the best driving holidays around the country. Each chapter includes information on things to see and do, detailed route maps and a handy list of distances to help you plan your trip, as well as lots of useful advice on family-friendly attractions, where …
Award-winning travel writer, photographer and author Lee Atkinson has been writing about her adventures on and off the road since 1991. She is a past president – and a Life Member – of the Australian Society of Travel Writers.
Lee is the author of 15 travel books, creator of two smartphone apps and editor of two anthologies, and her travel stories regularly appear in a range of Australian newspapers and magazines – you can read some her features in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Sun Herald here.
Her latest book, Ultimate Coastal Road Trips Australia, hits bookshop shelves in November 2023. Her other most recent books include the bestselling Ultimate Road Trips Australia, a collection of 40 of Australia’s best driving holidays. The Definitive Bucket List: travel experiences in Australia and New Zealand is the ultimate guide on where to go before your knees give out. Australia’s Best Nature Escapes features 100 nature-based holidays across the country, and Explore Australia by Camper Trailer is the first comprehensive guide specifically for travelling around Australia with a trailer. All five books are available wherever good books are sold. The Big Lap, a photographic diary of her 40,000km road trip around Australia, is available as a PDF.
Ever dreamed about driving off into the sunset and doing a big lap of the country? Lee Atkinson completed an epic 10-month road trip driving 40,000 of the country’s roughest, toughest and dustiest kilometres on a lap of mainland Australia. Featuring hundreds of beautiful images, The Big Lap –is the pictorial diary of her journey with detailed captions telling the stories behind the images.
“We took the road less travelled whenever we could, camping in national parks and other wild places where few other travellers go,” says Lee. “We found some truly amazing places and saw some fantastic things, and this book is the result, a showcase of some of the most scenic spots in Australia.
“But what makes this different from all the other photo books out there is this one also tells you how you can get these out of the way places and has lots of useful planning information,” she says. “The best spots are off the tourist trail, and most aren’t even on the map, but this book will tell you how to get there. So if you want to, you can follow in our tracks – as long as you don’t mind getting off the tourist trail and leaving the crowds behind.”
Buy the PDF: $15.