The Hume & Hovell Walking Track Guidebook

Crawford House Press, New South Wales, 1993. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Captain William Hovell & Hamilton Hume, together with six assigned convict servants, made the first overland journey from Sydney to Port Phillip. More than 1900 kilometres were covered on foot, in sixteen weeks. It was a journey of danger, hardship, courage, deprivation, leadership & bushmanship. Circumstances meant that it was an ill-equipped & under-provisioned expedition, yet it was very successful. Now the journey may not be made under such trying conditions. The New South Wales Department of Lands, through a Bicentennial grant of $1.3 million, , has constructed perhaps the most extensive walking track in Australia, which closely follows the explorers' route through New South Wales." Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 205 pages. Edges have a few marks. Covers have some shelf-wear, a few creases, as well as some bumping to corners & extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Geography & Maps; Australia; Travel & Places. ISBN: 1863330666. ISBN/EAN: 9781863330664. Inventory No: 20719. . 9781863330664