What's Under Your Town

What's Under Your Town, by Tom Ashworth of The Geography Files, is a 120-page ebook about thirty real Australian towns and cities, one chapter for each of the eight states and territories, going once round the country clockwise from Sydney to Cooktown. Every town is asked the same seven questions, in the same order: the rock under its streets and how many millions of years it has been there; why the town exists at all; what its name means, the names it carried before and the Aboriginal name where it is known; what water, fire and ice ...