| ISBN |
9780648043904 |
| Author |
Higgins, Matthew, 1957- (author) |
| Title |
Bold horizon : high-country place, people and story / Matthew Higgins. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Dural Delivery Centre, NSW : Rosenberg Publishing, 2018. |
| ©2018. |
| Description |
176 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1 My Place -- The Brindabellas and Beyond -- Kids at Kiandra -- Australia's K2 -- The Day We Didn't Lose the Chief Justice -- Caprice of the High Country -- A Precious Watery Corner in a Dry Continent -- Going it Alone -- The High Country as a Storied Landscape -- Chasing Mountain Memories: Interviewing About the High Country -- From Microphones to Boots and Skis -- Maps -- Map 1 The Australian Alps -- Map 2 Kosciuszko -- Map 3 Namadgi - Tidbinbilla -- Map 4 Bogong High Plains -- pt. 2 Their Place -- Bert Bennett: The Alps from End to End -- Stumpy Oldfield: Hard Labour -- Helen and John Dowling: A Love Affair with Brindabella -- Dean Freeman: Protecting Culture and Country -- Hughie Read: Raconteur from the Naas Valley -- Lindsay Pryor: Man of the Mountains and Man of Science -- Louis Margules: Tough Kid from the Cotter -- Bruce Hoad: When Caves Were King -- Daphne and Colin Curtis: Married to the Mountains -- |
| Contents note continued: Tim Ingram: Answering the Call of the High Country -- Elyne Mitchell: Mountain Author. |
| Summary |
What is it really like in Australia's high country? Matthew Higgins traces the mountain experience in a rich variety of ways. Firstly he talks of his own times in the alps as a bushwalker, cross-country skier, historian, and oral-history interviewer. Then, he profiles a range of people who have worked, lived, or played in the mountains: stockmen, skiers, Indigenous parks officers, rangers, brumby runners, foresters, authors, tourism operators, and others. The central themes of place, people, and story are interwoven with concerns about environmental impact and climate change. An extensive collection of beautiful images helps to tell the magnificent mountain story, from Kosciuszko to Kiandra, Brindabella to Bimberi and Bogong, to Tidbinbilla and beyond. |
| Subjects |
Trails -- New South Wales -- Snowy Mountains |
| Hiking -- New South Wales -- Snowy Mountains |
| Sports & Active outdoor recreation |
| Australian Capital Territory -- Brindabella Range |
| New South Wales -- Snowy Mountains |
| New South Wales -- Snowy Mountains Region |
| Brindabella Range (A.C.T.) |
| Snowy Mountains Region (N.S.W.) |
| Call number |
2019.182 |
