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Transit of Fiordland
Austin Macauley
ISBN13:
9781528921909
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This book details what is believed to be the first traverse of the Fiordland National Park wilderness area, New Zealand, in 1973/74. The author, Frank Yardley, then a 'hippie' and Shorty Biddle, a returned World War 2 serviceman, completed the traverse as part of a plan to walk the length of New Zealand's Southern Alps. These two characters are a generation apart in age and outlook. However, the book is not just a story of the experiences of traversing the remote, difficult and often-untracked terrain, but is a structure to capture details of the history of the region, pre- and post-European arrival, the 'lost tribes', explorers, hermits and eccentrics; the geography, flora and fauna, as well as the bush-craft skills required to survive in the breathtakingly beautiful but unforgiving terrain. The story meanders as a memoir and reflection, examining our changing relationship to wildness, nature; the changing lens of our relationship to the world we inhabit. The story was developed from letters and a journal of the journey, which enables an immediacy of experience, despite the passage of time.
- | Author: Frank Yardley
- | Publisher: Austin Macauley
- | Publication Date: November 12, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 228 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1528921909
- | ISBN-13: 9781528921909
- Author:
- Frank Yardley
- Publisher:
- Austin Macauley
- Publication Date:
- November 12, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 228 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1528921909
- ISBN-13:
- 9781528921909