Fair Weather Trampers: In the New Zealand Bush with the Cock & Bull Tramping Club
Author(s): Julia Millen
One summer morning a group of drinking mates set out for a short walk. Twelve hours later, exhausted and footsore, they straggle on to Makara Beach.
So begins the story of the Cock & Bull Tramping Club. Inspired by their guiding spirit The Compleat Tramper the Cock & Bull trampers embark on a series of adventures (and disasters) including battling a snow storm on Tongariro, being attacked by native falcons in the Nelson Lakes and slogging through the swamps of Stewart Island.
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Julia Millen is a historian, fiction writer and biographer well known for the biographies of New Zealand novelists Guthrie Wilson and Ronald Hugh Morrieson. Dilemma of Dementia, Millen’s moving account of caring for her mother who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease was published to acclaim in 1985. Since 2009 Julia has also been editor of the NZ National Library Society, Newsletter. Julia has been a member of NZSA (PEN) since 1985.
General Fields
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- : Writes Hill Press
- : Writes Hill Press
- : 01 October 2011
- : 250x175mm
- : New Zealand
- : 01 October 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Julia Millen
- : Paperback
- : Barbara O’Reilly
- : 796.5106093
- : 156
- : Black and white illustrations
