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I thought I'd start a thread for people to post details about books they have read that inspired them to get into overlanding.
Here are three from my own bookshelf I have selected. They all have an Australian slant of some kind:
1. African Adventure (A Senile Safari), Hazel Barker 1995. By the 1990's I'd been in the 4WD scene for a while when I saw a magazine article about a couple that had embarked on an overland trip in Africa in an Australian-registered Landcruiser. Hazel and David drove from Cape Town to London, then across Russia, years before the Trans Siberian Highway was finished. Shipping the Landcruiser back to Australia. They later shipped the same Landcruiser back to Vladivostok ad drove it back to Europe. I couldn't get this book in Tasmania at the time, so I contacted Hazel herself and she sent me my prized, signed copy.
2. Bush Tucker Man, Les Hidins 1996. Les Hiddins is an Australian legend and an expert on survival in Australia for the Australian Army. He follows the routes of many European explorers in northern Australia highlighting how they could have survived when they perished and why some expeditions flourished by eating native food. The book also details a number of excellent overland tracks some of which I have travelled myself.
3. Safe Outback Travel, Jack Absalom 1976. This is the classic Overlanders book, way before the term ovelander was widely used for what we do now. The book is written before 4WD was common place and many of the modern navigation and communications aids existed. Some of the ideas seem antiquated indeed, but then vehicles in the 1970's weren't as reliable and didn't have the range that we take for granted now. Still, to a ten year old it inspired me to want to explore this country.
Perhaps you could post a few of your own.
Here are three from my own bookshelf I have selected. They all have an Australian slant of some kind:
1. African Adventure (A Senile Safari), Hazel Barker 1995. By the 1990's I'd been in the 4WD scene for a while when I saw a magazine article about a couple that had embarked on an overland trip in Africa in an Australian-registered Landcruiser. Hazel and David drove from Cape Town to London, then across Russia, years before the Trans Siberian Highway was finished. Shipping the Landcruiser back to Australia. They later shipped the same Landcruiser back to Vladivostok ad drove it back to Europe. I couldn't get this book in Tasmania at the time, so I contacted Hazel herself and she sent me my prized, signed copy.
2. Bush Tucker Man, Les Hidins 1996. Les Hiddins is an Australian legend and an expert on survival in Australia for the Australian Army. He follows the routes of many European explorers in northern Australia highlighting how they could have survived when they perished and why some expeditions flourished by eating native food. The book also details a number of excellent overland tracks some of which I have travelled myself.
3. Safe Outback Travel, Jack Absalom 1976. This is the classic Overlanders book, way before the term ovelander was widely used for what we do now. The book is written before 4WD was common place and many of the modern navigation and communications aids existed. Some of the ideas seem antiquated indeed, but then vehicles in the 1970's weren't as reliable and didn't have the range that we take for granted now. Still, to a ten year old it inspired me to want to explore this country.
Perhaps you could post a few of your own.
