Flying Over the Rainbow: Living in Australia - The Bird-Lover's Paradise

Any Australian souvenir book worth buying will include photographs of the Great Barrier Reef, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock), and the trees of Sherbrooke Forest. Author Liz Davies, and her husband Stephen, moved to Australia in 2006 and set up housekeeping in a small village surrounded by those trees. Living among the giant eucalypts and tree ferns has proven to be quite an adventure. Kookaburras, cockatoos, magpies and other wild birds, many of which have lost much of their fear of humans, visit them daily. With wild wallabies eating her flowers and giant spiders roaming the house, Davies has her hands full. 'Flying Over the Rainbow' is a collection of stories about an American expat living in what she describes as “one of the most beautiful and possibly one of the most dangerous places on earth”.