Crossing The Blue Mountains

The Blue Mountains stretch from the Southern Highlands of New South Wales almost as far north as Muswellbrook. This book presents personal accounts of struggle and discovery by explorers, pioneers, scientists, writers and travellers, including Gregory Blaxland, Elizabeth Hawkins, Charles Darwin and David Foster.

There are also two accounts of scientific and imaginative exploration. Dave Noble discovers the prehistoric Wollemi Pine, a completely unknown, forty-metre tree within 200 kilometers of Sydney, the novelist David Foster walks from Mittagong to Katoomba, and reflects on wilderness and the difficulties Europeans still have relating to the eucalypt.