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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Trek Through the Back Country
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Treking through Deua, Wadbilliga and Brogo River wilderness areas west of Bermagui; reference to Aboriginal stone implements fire-stick farming, tribal areas of the Dyiringanj and the Walbanja, and the legend of douligah or yowie.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Methuen , 1987 .
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      Extent: 144pp.
      Description: Illustrated, Maps on lining papers.
      ISBN: 9780454012361
Alternative title: Back Country : Trek through the Deua and Wadbilliga
    • Eden, Eden area, Far South Coast, South Coast, New South Wales,: Canopy Press , 2016 .
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      Extent: x. 271p.
      Description: illustrations, portraits, maps
      Note/s:
      • Second edition updated and revised 2016 Contains extensive new material and index.

      ISBN: 9780995418608

Works about this Work

The Narrow, Green Land : John Blay's Back Country Tom Griffiths , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , September / Spring vol. 80 no. 3 2021; (p. 94-107)
'John Blay is a humble Australian bushman who is uncomfortable about comparisons with Henry Thoreau, but let me explore the parallel a little. Now in his seventies, Blay lives at Eden on the south coast of New South Wales with his beloved forests at his back. He has spent 40 years exploring them on foot and celebrating them in writing, most recently in his book Wild Nature: Walking Australia’s South East Forests (2020). The book completes a trilogy that began with Trek Through the Back Country (1987) and continued with On Track: Searching out the Bundian Way (2015). Most of his writing is inspired by close, sustained engagement on foot with rugged, wild, untracked bush.' (Introduction)
The Narrow, Green Land : John Blay's Back Country Tom Griffiths , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , September / Spring vol. 80 no. 3 2021; (p. 94-107)
'John Blay is a humble Australian bushman who is uncomfortable about comparisons with Henry Thoreau, but let me explore the parallel a little. Now in his seventies, Blay lives at Eden on the south coast of New South Wales with his beloved forests at his back. He has spent 40 years exploring them on foot and celebrating them in writing, most recently in his book Wild Nature: Walking Australia’s South East Forests (2020). The book completes a trilogy that began with Trek Through the Back Country (1987) and continued with On Track: Searching out the Bundian Way (2015). Most of his writing is inspired by close, sustained engagement on foot with rugged, wild, untracked bush.' (Introduction)
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