The Outback Way is the stuff of legends — thousands of kilometres of dirt road through the centre of Australia into uncharted ...

You don't so much backpack the Australian outback as bushwalk it. A remote and sparsely populated area of Australia, the outback is a vast, wide-open place. But therein lies the appeal.

Griff Rhys Jones is entranced by the vast emptiness of Australia, which you can really only appreciate by train.

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And that's Australia. My affection for the outback is, frankly, a mystery to me. Nearly everything about it is alien or alarming to my nature. It exceeds by a considerable margin my personal ...