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The
Melbourne Bushies - Fifty years along the track (1940-90)
The
Melbourne
Bushies
- Fifty years along the
track
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This
history of the Melbourne Bushwalkers, told by its members, is a fittingly
handsome celebration of the Club's fiftieth anniversary. It begins in the
forties at a time when bushwalking took off in Australia. The tale evolves
through the fifties, when new walking areas that are now suburbia were
being explored and gear was so much simpler, through the sixties and the
opening up of walking areas further afield, to the eventful seventies and
eighties.
The reader is invited to share the times
and experiences of those walkers - the delights, the adventures, the
characters, the factions and fashions, the times of hardship and of
consolidation and growth.
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The account includes:
All readers will find something of
interest. Each chapter is written by a different Club member, which gives
the book diversity of style. And the text has interspersed throughout
photographs, maps and entertaining anecdotes. This book is a must for all
members of the Melbourne Bushwalkers and those interested in the
development of bushwalking in Victoria as seen through the Club's eyes.
Copies of the bound volume are available at the club rooms for $5 per
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