THE ROAD TO MOUNT BUGGERY A journey through the curiously names places of Australia by Mark Whittaker and Amy Willesee

This book is very popular and very hard to find, an Aussie travel classic. This is a used book in good condition: nice and clean with only light wear and age, lightly worn corners. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages - the book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - enjoy!

Cover blurb: Planning to leave their city jobs to go bush for a year, Mark Whittaker and Amy Willesee became obsessed with the pecularly miserable placenames dotted around Australia. Places where brace explorers and settlers wore their hearts on their charts as they took possession of a cruel continent. Thirst, mozzies, massacres and an all-pervading woe led to names like Starvation Lake, Mount Unapproachable and Point Torment. So drawing up their own Map of Misery, the authors packed their four-wheel drive called Frank with a fridge that didn't cool, lights that didn't illuminate and a winch that didn't pull, to investigate the stories behind the names.

in the 53,000 kilometres it took to join the dots on their map, they went from New Era to World's End, from Hell's Gate to Paradise - and realised they were filling in a picture of Australia, both contemporary and historical, which went way beyond their expectations. This book is a travel delight, full of humour, incident and character.

Book Details

Code: SKU446

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Large Paperback

Pages: 312

Published: 2001 by Pan Macmillan

ISBN: 0732911117

Postage: $6.90

Price: AUD $10.00

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