The Road To Mount Buggery
First published in 2001 and again in 2002 this is a great road trip book detailing the travels to investigate the oddly named places around Australia.
Taking 12 months out of their busy working lives, the 2 journalists, Mark Whittaker and Amy Willesee, researched extensively and then explored the places marked on maps with such curious monikers as Mount Disappointment, Starvation Lake and Mount Unapproachable, to name but a few.
Told from each author's perspective in almost a diary format, the reader is taken along with them on their travels through searing heat, being bogged on roads deemed passable and in towns isolated by floods.
A great book that illustrates the very extremes that shaped, and still influences today, the Aussie psyche.
Out of the books from the first 4 pages of reviews, this is the only one that seems to be in my local library. Now I just have to get someone to loan me their library card!
UltraViolet said...
May 21, 2008 4:38 PM
It's a really enjoyable read :)
And your library needs to be refilled!
Jayne said...
May 23, 2008 1:43 PM
For a small country library, it's pretty good.
This book is excellent - can't put it down. Makes me want to learn a lot more about the country and get on the road to see more of it!
UltraViolet said...
June 7, 2008 11:26 AM