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Culture Shock: Australia by: Ilsa Sharp |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 994 EAN: 9781558680944 ISBN: 1558680942 Label: Graphic Arts Center Pub Co Manufacturer: Graphic Arts Center Pub Co Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 1992-02 Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Pub Co Studio: Graphic Arts Center Pub Co Sales Rank: 587497 Browse for similar items by category:
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 Rating:  - A Guide To The People And Culture Of Australia"Culture Shock! Australia: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette" by Ilsa Sharp is a guidebook to living in Australia. This book is not a travel guide, but rather a guide to the people and culture of the country. The main audience for this would be someone who intends to spend a lot of time in Australia, but it can also help business travelers, and even tourists. I know someone who just moved to Australia from Asia, and from what I have been able to determine, this guide appears to be fairly accurate. I am looking forward to my visit there, which should also give me a better idea on just how accurate it is. Be sure to get the latest edition, as it was updated in 2005 and it is clear from my reading that there were substantial ... Read More: Rating:  - Enjoyable but datedAn American friend, five years in Australia, lent me her 1999 version of this book. I've been here two years, from England, so I found it interesting. I agree that it has been inconsistently updated, and the Australia of 1991 seems to have been different in many ways to the Australia of 2004. Also, life in Perth must be different to that in Brisbane, where I live, 2,700 miles away. For a start, they play Australian football (and soccer) whereas Rugby League is the main game here. It would be highly surprising if the author's views/perceptions and mine tallied 100%, but in fact they do quite a lot. I was interested, for example, in her correct perception of sport being a good conversation topic, not least at dinner parties. Coming from a ... Read More: Rating: - An almost excellent introduction to OZI have travelled extensively in Australia on three trips between March, 2001 and November, 2002, and purchased this book to fill in information about Australian culture, lifestyle and current happenings where guidebooks are usually pretty thin. It almost did the job for me. The author, Ilsa Sharp who is an immigrant from Great Britain by way of Singapore, wrote this introduction to Australia for publication in 1992. She had only lived in Australia two years then. She has revised it four times since, in 1994, 1997, 2000, and 2001--or almost revised it in those years. Unfortunately her comments on things that are subject to change jump around so that the reader cannot tell whether or not they are current. There are lots of ... Read More: Rating:  - Fascinating. I loved it.This book gave a feel for life in Australia. It is fascinating. "Customs and Etiquette" are more informative than facts and figures when understanding people from another place. Too bad our history and geography books aren't more like this book. Australia is a BIG place, so understanding the people is like understanding ALL Americans. Not so easy. I loved it. Rating:  - Not at all what I expectedI don't find this book very helpful in general. I am very disappointed in the content. |
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