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Includes 20 treks within a 2 hour of the city. Trek notes are accompanied by accurate full-colour maps, and snippets about local history and wildlife add colour and interest to the 4WD experience. Over 100 full-colour photos complement the text and provide a clear sense of the features on each trek.
Explore 20 of the best 4WD day and weekend destinations around Melbourne. This completely revised and expanded 3rd edition features twenty of the best 4WD treks within a few short hours drive of Melbourne. You'll discover some of the best 4WD destinations with this easy to follow route noted guide. Route directions read in forward and reverse as well as featuring both GPS Lat/Long and UTM Grid References. Treks include: Mt Disappointment, Wallan to Strath Creek, Powelltown to Gembrook, Bunyip State National Park and Donnellys Creek.
Fully updated and field checked, this third edition of 4WD Treks Close to Melbourne will take you on 20 of the best 4WD adventures within a couple of hours drive of the city. Whether you are looking for a leisurely day trip or a longer overnight jaunt, 4WD Treks Close to Melbourne is your indispensable companion to exploring secluded gold mining areas, historic towns, verdant forests and the many delightful mountains areas which surround Melbourne. Whether you are looking for an easy trek for a family outing or a serious off-road adventure, 4WD Treks Close to Melbourne is your passport to some of the best picnic, walking, camping, swimming, fishing and four-wheel drive destinations on Melbournes doorstep.
4WD Treks of the High Country will lead readers through twenty-six of the best four-wheel drive touring destinations in both the Victorian and New South Wales alpine region. Jam-packed full of information on the regions history, natural features and highlights, this detailed guide makes an indispensable travelling companion for those setting out to explore one of the countrys most unique areas. The guide features over 150 stunning full colour photographs which help bring the High Country to life. Whilst exploring this awe-inspiring region, travellers will discover old gold mining towns tucked away in secluded valleys, marvel at breathtaking vistas from atop some of the regions highest peaks and be guided to great campsites to throw down their swags, often beside babbling mountain streams. With the aid of comprehensive route directions, intrepid adventurers are guided on the right track from start to finish, taking in many little-known points of interest tucked away in the mountains. As one of Australias premier four-wheel drive touring destinations, 4WD Treks of the High Country will help readers get the best from their adventure to this stunning area.
This completely revised and expanded 6th edition, now in the A4 format so popular among owners of 4WD vehicles, features 18 of the best four-wheel drive day and weekend treks within a few short hours’ drive of Sydney. This is one of Boiling Billy’s best-selling titles, with over 85,000 copies sold of previous editions. Expert route directions read in forward and reverse as well as featuring both GPS Lat/Long and UTM Grid References. Treks include: Yengo National Park, Abercrombie Trek, Tianjara Fire Trail, The Bridle Track, Dixons Long Point, Caves to Caves, Watagan Mountains, Sunny Corner Trek, Touring the Turon, Trek to Newnes, Baal Bone Gap, Stockton Beach, Chichester Forest, Barrington Tops and The Hunter Ranges. As a bonus the authors have provided details on walking tracks to explore and lookouts to take in the vistas which can be found along the route. Each tour is complimented with detailed trek maps covering the route taken along with a regional road atlas. Stunning fully colour photography provides inspiration to get out and explore the best 4WD destinations in the Sydney region.
The best-selling 4WD bible, now in a fully revised andupdated edition. This book explains how 4WDs work and howto drive them offroad. It covers detailed explanantionsof 4WD systems, suspension, wheels, tyres, weights andmore. There are extensive chapters on driving theory andtechniques, navigation, communications, gear selectionand ......
An essential guide to safe and responsible four-wheel driving. Modern four-wheel drive vehicles are powerful and sophisticated machines, able to travel almost anywhere. Given their growing popularity with recreational drivers, there is an even more pressing need for adequate training. Even on sealed roads these vehicles require a different set of driving skills; off-road, the demands are many times greater. This second edition of the bestselling 4WD Driving Skills complements nationally recognised training courses and has been fully revised to include updated vehicle terminology, technology and recovery techniques. It explains the essential skills of four-wheel driving for every type of on- and off-road terrain, how to approach challenging situations, and what to do if things go wrong. It is a valuable reference for all four-wheel drive enthusiasts.
Guide with maps and photographs for four wheel drive enthusiasts to twenty-five treks around Victoria. Day trips from Melbourne and longer forays in remote areas are covered. Ron Moon is editor of the four wheel drive magazine T4 x 4 Australia'.
Suelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, including NASA and the US military. Brilliant and obsessed, many of them found themselves addicted to hacking and phreaking. Some descended into drugs and madness, others ended up in jail. As riveting as the finest detective novel and meticulously researched, Underground follows the hackers through their crimes, their betrayals, the hunt, raids and investigations. It is a gripping tale of the digital underground.
