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Wild Journeys

New Zealand's Famous and Infamous Historic and Off-the-Beaten-Path Journeys, Tracks, Routes...

Bruce Ansley

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English
HARPER360
28 July 2021
Discover a world of wild, mysterious and audacious journeys

In Wild Journeys, Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps; follows the raiding party of the northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast; sails around New Zealand's northern and southern capes; walks through the Valley under the Two Thumb Range to the mythical Mesopotamia; drives from Waiheke to Wanaka (in a hurry); sets off on a hunt for the South Island's Grey Ghost; looks deep into the heart of volcanic New Zealand and tracks New Zealand's most unlikely hero, prison escapee George Wilder.

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Imprint:   HARPER360
Country of Publication:   New Zealand
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 155mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   360g
ISBN:   9781775541844
ISBN 10:   1775541843
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Bruce Ansley has spent much of his life in the South Island. He was raised in New Brighton, Christchurch, and has lived in Dunedin, Christchurch, the Marlborough Sounds and Golden Bay. He has grown up with the south's people, its cities, towns, rivers, mountains, bush and plains. He has picked tobacco in Motueka, been a commercial fisherman in Fiordland and a deer farmer on Banks Peninsula. He has worked in radio, television and newspapers in the south too. For almost a quarter of a century he was the Christchurch-based writer for the New Zealand Listener magazine, until he became a full-time author. As a writer, tramper and traveller, and being professionally nosey, he has poked into many corners of the island, although nowhere near all of them: he finds the south and its people endlessly fascinating. He now lives on Waiheke Island to be close to his family, but his heart remains in the south. Down South is his eleventh book.

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