Dimensions
153 x 228 x 24mm
This is the safest way to visit the most inaccessible and uninviting parts of our country. Living and working as journalists in Sydney, where the most exciting place name is Rooty Hill, Mark Whittaker and Amy Willesee became obsessed with the bizarre names that litter outback Australia. Places where explorers and settlers - lost of disappointed with the harsh landscape - let their suffering, and the destruction they caused, endure on the map.
Finding 45 Mount Miserys at last count - not to mention Hills, Rocks and Bluffs - the authors decided to spend a year exploring their own Map of Misery. With a four-wheel drive, a tent and a generator-powered fridge, they began a journey to explore the fascinating stories, both historical and contemporary, that lie behind Australia's Mount Treacherys and Massacre Lakes.
Ending, both literally and figuratively, at Mount Buggery, this book is a travel delight, full of humour, incident and character.
