1982, Australian hardcover edition, Australian National University Press, Canberra, Australia, 251 pages. Excellent vintage b&w photos throughout. Here is a truly unique book, the end result of 8 years of research into "... history of numerous huts and homesteads scattered throughout the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales."
A poetic, personal, candid and richly descriptive account of over 40 journeys, on foot, in a kayak and by campervan to different parts of the South Coast of New South Wales over the last twenty years. It includes observations of animals, plants, people, history, ship wrecks, ecology, lakes and islands, and encounters with cuckoos, terns, owls, snakes, sugar gliders, manta rays, dolphins, whales, emus, dingos, cicadas, ant lions, ticks, lace monitors, strangler figs and prickly pear as well as greenies, botanists, bushwalkers, young lovers, locals, park rangers and canoeists. Anecdotes, poems and photos bring every beach, rock pool, headland, river and lagoon to life.