RESEARCH

Whiona is a compulsive reader and planner. When we decided to do this walk shelves around the region weren't safe from her scouring.

Here are some reviews and thoughts on many of the books she's digested over the last few months.
They all have either an actual link to our southern walk or an emotional one.
John Pascoe's New Zealand classic revised by Graham Langton
Samuel Butler's South Island fantasy
Brian Turner's Back Country Miscellany
and Dave Witherow's Open Season
Mona Anderson's high-country life
Legless mountaineer
Norman Croucher's story
These books are on our reading list
Stories from New Zealand's first
mountainbiker Arthur P. Harper
Whiona looks at the past

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