"Een Australisch gezelschap bezoekt tijdens een wereldreis zoveel bezienswaardigheden dat er een groot verlangen naar de vertrouwde omgeving groeit bij de deelnemers."
"Thirteen men and women travel the world on a package tour but wherever they go nothing is as it seems. Challenged by the unexpected, by differences and subtleties, Bail's tourists are in turn repelled and attracted-and all are altered."@en
"GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. AUSTRALIAN. Winner National Book Council Award for Australian Literature. Winner Age Book of the Year Award. Introduction by Peter Conrad. It could almost have been their own country: these sections with the gums briefly framed like a traditional oil painting by the slowly passing window. The colours were as brown and parched; that chaff - coloured grass, Ah, this dun - coloured realism. Any minute now the cry of the crow or a cockatoo; but no. Thirteen men and women travel the world on a package tour but wherever they go nothing is as it seems. Challenged by the unexpected, by differences and subtleties, Bail's tourists are in turn repelled and attracted - and all are altered. 'A visual writer with great understanding of sensual man.' Patrick White."@en