Author(s): Rex Hendry

NZ Outdoors

This manuscript languished at the bottom of the wardrobe for 25 years. It is an account of the journey across New Zealand, top to bottom, through the bush - a little under 3000kms in 168 days. It is a 'first draft' written a few months after the trip in 1983/84. The route explored the possibility of a North-South Walkway through the country. The temptation to re-write and 'tart it up" with exciting expletives and dripping metaphors has been resisted. The written word follows this intrepid trek and relays the true characteristics of the journey - rough, raw , tenacious, and at times tedious. It is an authentic account interpreted from the pages of his logbook. - taken from back cover Title

Wee walk in the wilderness: walking the length of New Zealand through the bush 1983/ 84