SE
Forests Project
The
Bundian Way
Black Thursday
1851
Book
Sales
Tall Forests
Some fauna
Some Plants
Old
Pathways
Davidson Whaling Station
Gardening Tips
The Bermagui Page
Pathway Survey |
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The new book is now in bookstores
everywhere, published by NewSouth.
‘The
Bundian Way
is a reconciliation
… This
is a
track, a
meeting place, that links the
freshwater to the
saltwater, the beaches
to the
mountains. People traversed that track for a lot longer than most
of us can get our heads around. And it should be a track for all of us
to come together now.’
— MICK GOODA, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Commissioner
‘On Track is proof that the land still has its mysteries, and that after
more than 200 years, the age of explorers is not yet over. John Blay, with
a poet’s
sensibility and a
poet’s eye
for detail,
takes us step by step across country as he puts the
Bundian
Way
back on the map.’
— DAVID MALOUF
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to purchase the book
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‘Is it possible to scale that dark mass, the highest
part of Australia, and then walk all the way from the summit to the sea as
the old people are said to have done?’
On Track is the fascinating account of John Blay’s long-distance
search for the old ways of travelling between the Kosciuszko high country
and Twofold Bay near Eden on the New South Wales far south coast. The
360-kilometre route of the Bundian Way traverses some of the nation’s
wildest, most remarkable landscapes from the highest part of the continent
to the ocean.
This epic bushwalking story traces the region’s people, natural history,
country and the rediscovery of an important shared history pathway. Now
heritage-listed – and thanks to the work of Blay, Aboriginal communities and
local people – the Bundian Way is set to be one of the great Australian
walks.
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