Wayfaring in Wollemi : stories of people in wilderness / Andy Macqueen
- Bib ID:
- 7420240
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Macqueen, Andy, 1949-, author
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Printer:
- Riverwood, NSW : Liagre Pty Ltd.
- Description:
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- Wentworth Falls, NSW : Andy Macqueen, 2017
- ©2017
- 351 pages : illustrations, facsimilies, maps (some colour), portraits ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780646974132 (hardback)
- Summary:
-
“This book celebrates the human side of wilderness. It presents the stories of 28 people, colonial explorers and surveyors, wanderers, cattlemen, would-be developers, adventurers and conservationists. For one reason or another they spent a part of their life in the Wollomi, the largest declared Wilderness in New South Wales. What took them there and what did they get up to? Did the experience change their lives? In telling their stories, the author follows their footsteps through the gorges, over the mountains and into the hideaways. Along the way he weaves some of his personal story, revealing how he, like many of his subjects, has been touched by a landscape largely unaffected by transient modern society.”--Back cover.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- Seekers:
- Matthew Everingham
- Benjamin Singleton
- Joseph Carne
- Cecil Poole
- Mappers:
- Robert Hoddle
- Frederick D'Arcy
- William Govett
- Heanage Finch
- Peter Oglivie
- Hugh Clews
- Settlers:
- Jonathon McLean
- Bob Gosper
- Tom Simmons
- Mary Davis
- Snowy Dubois
- Shorty Fitzgerald
- Schemers:
- George Townsend
- John Cotton
- Adventurers:
- Jack Smith
- Max Gentle and Gordon Smith
- Ock Hatherly
- Win Duncombe
- Edna Garrad
- Bob Buck
- Believers:
- Bob O'Neill
- Haydn Washington
- Wyn Jones
- Reflections:
- The Eagle
- Appendices
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Colour maps on endpapers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-347) and index.
- Subject:
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- Wilderness area users -- New South Wales -- Wollemi National Park -- Biography
- Wilderness areas -- New South Wales -- Wollemi National Park -- History
- National parks and reserves -- New South Wales -- Wollemi National Park
- Wollemi National Park (N.S.W.) -- Description and travel
- Wollemi National Park (N.S.W.) -- Biography
- Wollemi National Park (N.S.W.) -- History
- Wollemi National Park (N.S.W.) -- Anedotes
- Australian
- Copyright:
-
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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