Includes over 40 walks from the Royal National Park to Gerringong. Walk notes are accompanied by accurate full-colour maps, and snippets about local history and wildlife add colour and interest to the walking experience. Over 150 full-colour photos complement the text and provide a clear sense of the features on each walk.
The best walks for visitors and residents alike, ranging from leisurely coastal strolls to the more rugged tracks deep in the bush. Detailed descriptions and maps help the reader explore the regions parks, bushland, rivers and coasts. The book is richly illustrated with over 200 colour photographs and dozens of detailed maps.
For those in the urban centres of Sydney, Wollongong or Canberra, the Southern Highlands offer a fast escape with natural attractions that can’t be found along the coast. The Highlands form part of the Great Dividing Range and numerous spectacular waterfalls tumble off its sharp eastern edge.
The perfect companion for the bushwalking fan, whether local or a visitor to the Blue Mountains region. Features accurate maps, step by step directions, detailed walk statistics, information on local history and the natural environment, walking ideas for families with children, safety tips and over 200 full colour photographs.
Explore the very best camping spots in New South Wales with this fully updated, detailed directory to more than 600 designated campsites in national parks, state forests and reserves. With Camping Guide to NSW, 5th edition, youll discover places where you can pitch your tent...
The ride guide that gives the reader the inspiration and confidence to get out on the quiet streets, roads and bike paths and see what Sydney and its hinterland has to offer. Their senses will reel with the sounds and smells of the bustling city and the ever-changing bush, and theyll find the opportunities and freedom...
Before the development of modern medicine, infectious diseases posed a major public health threat. The only known means of protecting communities from outbreaks was to isolate sufferers and those with whom they had been in contact. For immigrants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who had already endured the long voyage to ......
Sydney to Newcastle: Australia's most accessible long-distance track
This guide is for anyone looking to tackle all or part of the beautiful 250-kilometre Great North Walk as a multi-day holiday, or those who want to experience particular sections as day walks. Like all of the WLP walking guides, the book includes full-colour photography and accurate maps, easy-to-follow instructions and great local information.
First published1982 (188 pages portrait size) was heralded then, as the most up to date historical paper on gold in Australia with the focus on Hill End. In 1983 the N.S.W. State Libraries Service bulk purchased for distribution into its affiliates. This book has been used by many who have written similar since. Compiled at a ......
