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The Crow Eaters is an historical travelogue, written about and focusing on a lengthy road trip through the mighty continent of Australia. Welcome to gloriously empty desert, outback towns with ridiculous names, and a smattering of marsupials, dangerous snakes, and riotous llamas. And all accomplished with the help of an elderly, self-dismantling Mazda 323 station wagon, bought in the scorched northern city of Darwin. The jalopy gallantly takes the author to the Great Barrier Reef, Bondi Beach, Queensland’s vast tropical rainforests, and even to the iconic Ayers Rock. The Crow Eaters also leaps sideways into a series of autobiographical chapters set elsewhere on the globe; the author’s many unusual jobs and oddball travel companions are thus scrutinised. And this book provides the sort of tongue-in-cheek Aussie history that you just won’t find in the history books… About The Author Mike Robertson was born in England in the sixties. After a somewhat reluctant schooling, he pursued a number of hobbies and jobs, including time as a pig farmer, a mechanic, a fireman, and a stripper. He took up rock climbing in the early nineties, which led to many years as a climbing photo-journalist and Rockfax guidebook writer. The Crow Eaters is his first mainstream book. Also now available from Mike is his first novel, The Bauble Chain. He’s (sometimes) based on a farm in Hampshire, UK. Please view his work at: mikerobertsonphotography.com