Trek through the back country. by Blay, John - 1987

Methuen Australia 1987. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 238pp. b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w with crease on spine. Inscribed & signed by author. .

Good for age in bumped and marked dustjacket. Not clipped.

New South Wales, Australia: Methuen Australia, 1987. 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with photo illustrated dust jacket; 238 pages. Endpapers are maps. There is a center section of black and white photographs on glossy stock. From jacket: "In 1981, (the author) undertook a trek through the rugged and little known country in the mountains west of Bermagui. For some nine months (the author) and his mule, Zac, travelled from Araluen in the north along the waters of the Deua River to the Tuross and eventually back down into the Brogo catchment before finishing on Indian Head Mountain above the township of Bemboka. Less than 100km as the crow flies this area takes in extensive wilderness and the Deua and Wadbilliga National Parks. (The author) set out to test himself. He explains what the unsettled and unspoilt Australian landscape is all about by taking the reader into localities of unique and rare wildlife, falls, river gorges, caves, gold diggings, Aboriginal sites and fabled Yowie… Read More