Camping Guides

 

Don't Die In The Bush by Sven Klinge and Adrian Hart (New Holland Publishers)
Bushwalking and Camping by Ian Brown (Envirobook, Sydney)
Discover Australia National Parks by Ron and Viv Moon (Global Book Publishing)

 

 

Don’t Die in the Bush: The Complete Guide to Australian Camping
By Sven Klinge and Adrian Hart
Published by New Holland Publishes (Australia)

 The Book

The Australian bush is a beautiful, challenging and rejuvenating environment.  But it can also be a very dangerous one, requiring careful planning and preparation.

Here in one compact, practical and attractive volume is everything you need to know – not only to survive in the bush, but also to make the most of your camping adventures.  From equipment and technology to safety and first aid, from environmental awareness and camping laws to activity suggestions and a guide to Australia’s premier camp sites – Don’t Die in the Bush covers every aspect of going bush.  It has good oil on cooking and navigating, descriptions of dangerous animals and plants, camping contact details, and a thought-provoking chapter on the future of camping in Australia.

Whether you’re an experienced bushwalker and camper or an outdoor novice, Don’t Die in the Bush will see you in and out of the woods with ease.

 

The Authors

Sven Klinge began venturing into the Australian wilderness in 1987, exploring a host of national parks and state forests on foot and mountain bike.  He wrote his first book, Cycling The Bush:  100 Rides in New South Wales, a year later, aged nineteen.  The Cycling The Bush series, including The Best Rides in Australia, comprises Australia’s premier mountain biking guidebooks.  Sven’s landscape photography has also been featured in various guidebooks, advertisements and magazine articles.  Sven has also co-authored a major national walking title on Australia;s mountains with Tyrone Thomas.

While Sven has toured extensively throughout Australia, New Zealand and Europe, it is the great mountain wilderness World Heritage areas of south-west Tasmania and Fiordland that particularly draw his attention.

Educated at Sydney University, Sven currently works as an accountant, contact network administrator, and freelance writer for legal journals.

Adrian Hart has travelled extensively throughout Australia, New Zealand, North America and Europe.  He has walked, camped and cycled in many of Australia’s national parks.  His interest in the out doors now pushes him to new challenges in extreme sports, which he is researching for a new Australian reference guide.

Adrian graduated from the Sydney University, where he now works as an Associate Lecturer.  Adrian has worked as a research assistance, college tutor, information research officer and volunteer news reporter for public radio station 2SER-FM.  In 1996, he published his first novel, Short Shrift: Confession of a High School Heretic.  Adrian divides his time between Sydney and Bundanoon, where he pursues an interest in photography, astronomy and outdoor sports.

 

 

Discover Australia: National Parks
By Ron and Viv Moon
Published by Global Book Publishing

The Book

Discover Australia: National Parks includes detailed up-to-date information compiled by a team of national park experts, people who visit the parks regularly, write about and photograph them and lead tours to the more remote parks.

There are sections on touring Australia, on camping, on first aid and survival, and on 4WDing in parks where 4WD is welcome.

Over 125 national parks are dealt with in depth with maps and photographs: what to see or do, a park’s major attractions, facilities, flora and fauna, where the best camping spots are, walking tracks, access, and more.

Plus text on over 160 additional parks, together with a comprehensive grid for each state listing additional parks and there many facilities, provide information for over 700 national parks, regional reserves, state forests and recreational areas.

This book will introduce you to Australia’s protected areas showing how you can enjoy them now, while ensuring that they are preserved for the future.

 

The Authors

RON & VIV MOON have spent much of their lives exploring and writing about Australia's wild and remote areas.  In their travels they combine many interests such as 4WD touring, camping, bird watching, diving, canoeing and fishing, as well as photography, and this is reflected in the many articles that they have written for a wide range of magazines in Australia.

A range of wilderness canoe trips over the years, have resulted in a number of 'first descents' on remote crocodile infested rivers in northern Australia, most of these expeditions sponsored by Australian Geographic magazine.

With his wife, Viv, they founded the magazine, Action Outdoor Australia, back in the early 1980's and were editor/assistant editor for a number of years, while they also travelled the world and Australia as freelance adventure travel writers.

They wrote and produced their first guidebook in 1986 and now, as well as producing their own very successful adventure guide books on Cape York, the Kimberley, the Flinders Ranges and Victorian 4WD bushtracks, they have also written, or are the major writer/consultant editors for a number of other guides published by Global Publishing. In all they have written or contributed to ten guidebooks on remote areas in Australia.

Their extensive and regular travels keep them up the date with information needed to explore and plan trips throughout Australia.