Bill Bryson/YMMV


 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Many descriptions of Australian wildlife and the travails of outback explorers (though it's all Truth in Television...). Also the descriptions of potential megadisasters in Short History. (Now I've made myself scared...)
 * Newer Than They Think: Australia's Trans-Continental Railway
 * As well as the reach of Australian utilities, geographical knowledge of the place, pretty much the whole country (only independent since 1901).