New Boots in New Zealand

Author:

By Gillian Orrell

Format:

Paperback

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Price:

£8.99

Tagged with:

Active Outdoor Sports, Walking and Trekking

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Further Details

• Published: 21st Oct 2006
• ISBN: 1905449402
• Pages: 240
• Photos: 32
• Size: 216mm x 135mm

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The Great Walks showcase New Zealand’s spectacular and diverse natural landscapes. These nine, multi-day tracks run over mountains, through rivers, into craters, along beaches, past glaciers, beside lakes, between active volcanoes and through some of the oldest forest in the world. The human stories from these tracks are just as colourful. After nearly a decade of city living, thirty-something Gillian Orrell left a successful city career, flew to New Zealand and took up the local past-time with the peculiar name.‘Tramping’, she discovers, is a lot like hiking, but with some distinctive twists. Gillian aimed to complete all of the breathtaking Great Walks and found that they lead even the most inexperienced tramper through some of the most awe-inspiring landscapes on our planet. Along the way she uncovers local legends and controversies, meets ‘real’ trampers, adjusts her life’s priorities, gets caught in a flood, searches for endangered species, hunts goats, considers the human place in this land, and even learns how to eat porridge properly.