Bushwalking In Australia, 320 pages, A5 in size - full colour throughout, 181 colour photographs, 56 colour topographic maps, ISBN 0 9596129 7 1. RRP is A$39.95 (including GST), 4th edition published in June 2003, previous editions were published by (Lonely Planet) LP in 1988, 1992 and 1997.
Copies can be purchased directly from us by sending A$36 (which includes GST and postage to any Australian address) or for Overseas orders A$40 (for seamail) or A$46 (for air-mail), to PO Box 5042, Laburnum, 3130, Australia. Our clear plastic protective covers dont fit this book - at our next print run we will order suitable covers. Only cheques or money orders on Australian banks can be accepted as we do not have credit card facilities - we are primarily writers and self publishers - not book sellers. We will be away walking from August 23rd to October 2nd. Our house sitter will read in emails and collect snail mail but will not be answering emails or posting book orders during that period. Alternatively to order on-line by credit card contact Open Spaces Publishing.
At present I have five 'seconds' (books with either a bent corner or slightly damaged cover) that are available for $30 including postage within Australia. If you want one then email first and I will hold a book for two weeks pending delivery of payment.
The guide contains only overnight or longer walks and with colour contour maps at either 1:100,000 or 1:50,000 scales. None of the strange map scales like 1:40,000, 1:80,000 etc or the really useless scales for walking like 1:250,000 which appear in some other books or our previous LP editions appear in the new edition of this guide. Rather than describing masses of walks in skimpy detail to make it look numerically attractive, the walks have full track notes of the standard walkers who use my Tasmania and other guides have come to expect.
Some hidden bonuses are brief biographies of seven important
Australian bushwalkers and brief planning notes for six of the
major long distance tracks in Australia. The guide includes full
track notes and maps for a seventh long distance track - the Great
South West Walk in Victoria. Here is the Contents
Page
New South Wales - Grose Valley, Corang Peak to the Castle (Budawangs), Upper Ettrema Creek (Budawangs), Koscuiszko Main Range, Geehi to Mt Townsend (includes Lady Northcotes Canyon)
Northern Territory - Chewings Range, Simpsons Gap to Alice Springs (the two walks describe the first 3 sections of the Larapinta Trail near Alice Springs)
Queensland - Mt Bartle Frere, Thorsborne Trail (Hinchinbrook Island)
South Australia - Gammon Ranges, Wilpena Pound
Tasmania - Overland Track, Mt Field, Freycinet Peninsula, Cape Pillar.
Victoria - Mt Feathertop & Bon Accord Spur, The Viking Circuit, Wilsons Promontory Southern Circuit, Beeripmo Walk ( a new track west of Ballarat), The Fortress (in the Grampians), Great South West Walk.
Western Australia - Monadnocks Traverse (near Perth), Tingle Forest (near Walpole on south coast), Rame Head to Denmark (also on south coast), Stirling Range
In all - the guide includes 25 overnight and longer walks with 9 new walks not in the 3rd edition. There are walks for all standards with 4 easy, 7 easy-medium, 6 medium, 4 medium-hard and 4 hard walks.
Lonely Planet (LP) published the first 3 editions of Bushwalking In Australia. To quieten rumours, the reason we departed from LP is they demanded that all copyright be transferred to them. We did not accept this as this would effectively mean we would have written walks that LP requested for a 4th edition then lose all rights to those walks thereafter. This might be a fine condition for a one off writer but is not acceptable to ourselves who keep repeating walks and upgrading information on those walks.
NOTE - Lonely Planet published a NEW book called 'Walking
in Australia'. In the 4th edition they claimed their book was a
retitled
edition
of 'Bushwalking In Australia' - however Lonely Planet is not the
copyright holder of Bushwalking In Australia - we are. LPs
correspondence
with us shows that their book was intended as a NEW book, not
a retitled book as claimed on page 12 of that edition. The fact that it
contains
many one day walks as well as overnight walks, illustrates that
it was indeed very different. While both books contain obvious
classic walks like the Overland Track and the Thorsborne Trail,
there are many different walks in the two books. Without our
permission, Lonely
Planet placed our names into the 4th edition of their book and we are
not associated in any way with Walking
In Australia. LP has now produced a 5th edition and have withdrawn our
names as previous authors.