The ways of the bushwalker
Subtitle: on foot in Australia
By: Melissa Harper.
Publisher: University of New South Wales
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Sydney, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780868409689
Subjects: Hiking -- Australia -- History; Trails -- Australia; Outdoor recreation -- Australia; Australia -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Stepping out in Australia; title: The arrival of the tourist walker; title: Walking the colonial adventure; title: The Bush, my lover; title: I walk, therefore I think; title: From the open road to the bush track; title: Happy feet: the interwar hiking craze; title: Bushwalkers unite! The politics of organised walking; title: Wild about wilderness; title: Whose bush is it anyway?