The Ways of the Bushwalker On Foot in Australia
by Harper, MelissaEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-09-01
Publisher(s): University of New South Wales Press
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Summary
This book traces the history of bushwalking in Australia and shows how the activity has become the most popular way that Australians engage with the bush. For many Australians, walking has become a major means of developing an attachment to the land and a connection to the nation. The book features many primary materials including diary entries, club newsletters and photos that bring to life the origins and developments of walking as a significant Australian pastime. It also offers some marvelous pen portraits of the extraordinary characters that pioneered bushwalking in this country, and those who followed in their footsteps.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Stepping out in Australia | p. 1 |
| The arrival of the tourist walker | p. 22 |
| Walking the colonial adventure | p. 58 |
| The bush, my lover | p. 86 |
| I walk, therefore I think | p. 114 |
| From the open road to the bush track | p. 141 |
| Happy feet : the interwar hiking craze | p. 168 |
| Bushwalkers unite! : the politics of organised walking | p. 201 |
| Wild about wilderness | p. 242 |
| Whose bush is it anyway? | p. 272 |
| Notes | p. 306 |
| Select bibliography | p. 326 |
| Index | p. 337 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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