Transit of Fiordland

This book details what is believed to be the first traverse of the Fiordland National Park wilderness area, New Zealand, in 1973/74. The author, Frank Yardley, then a 'hippie' and Shorty Biddle, a returned World War 2 serviceman, completed the traverse as part of a plan to walk the length of New Zealand's Southern Alps. These two characters are a generation apart in age and outlook. However, the book is not just a story of the experiences of traversing the remote, difficult and often-untracked terrain, but is a structure to capture details of the history of the region, pre- and post-European arrival, the 'lost tribes', explorers, hermits and eccentrics; the geography, flora and fauna, as well as the bush-craft skills required to survive in the breathtakingly beautiful but unforgiving terrain. The story meanders as a memoir and reflection, examining our changing relationship to wildness, nature; the changing lens of our relationship to the world we inhabit. The story was developed from letters and a journal of the journey, which enables an immediacy of experience, despite the passage of time.

ISBN:	9781528921909
Publisher:	Austin Macauley Publishers
Imprint:	Austin Macauley Publishers
Published date:	29 Nov 2019
DEWEY:	796.52209396
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	226
Weight:	280g
Height:	127mm
Width:	202mm
Spine width:	27mm

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