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The ways of the bushwalker : on foot in Australia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harper, Melissa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sydney, Australia : University of New South Wales, 2007.
Subjects:
Hiking > Australia > History.
Trails > Australia.
Outdoor recreation > Australia.
Australia > Social life and customs.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Stepping out in Australia
  • The arrival of the tourist walker
  • Walking the colonial adventure
  • The Bush, my lover
  • I walk, therefore I think
  • From the open road to the bush track
  • Happy feet: the interwar hiking craze
  • Bushwalkers unite! The politics of organised walking
  • Wild about wilderness
  • Whose bush is it anyway?