Wild journeys: New Zealand's famous & infamous, historic & off-the-beaten-path journeys, tracks, routes & passages
✍ Scribed by Bruce Ansley
- Book ID
- 100559004
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 165 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New Zealand,New Zealand.
- ISBN
- 177549151X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
"A series of accounts of journeys in New Zealand, from sailing round the North and South Capes to tramping through the Southern Alps and walking along Auckland's main thoroughfare, Queen Street"--Publisher information.;Introduction: journeying -- Chasing George -- Voyaging north -- Raiding south -- Pointing down -- Rolling on one -- Finding God -- Strutting stuff -- Hunting ghosts -- Going south -- Dashing madly -- Passing muster -- Feeling the heat -- Passing by -- Keeping count -- Travelling first class -- Acknowledgements.;Discover a world of wild, mysterious and audacious journeys In Wild Journeys Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps, follows the raiding party of the northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast, sails around New Zealand's northern and southern capes; walks through the Valley under the Two Thumb Range to the mythical Mesopotamia; drives from Waiheke to Wanaka (in a hurry), sets off on a hunt for the South Island's Grey Ghost, looks deep into the heart of volcanic New Zealand and tracks our most unlikely hero, the prison escaper George Wilder.
✦ Subjects
New Zealand