The Road to Mount Buggery: A Journey Through the Curiously Named Places of Australia by Mark Whittaker and Amy Willesee

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing marks to inside covers. Pages have started to sun.

Living and working as journalists in Sydney, where the most exciting place name is Rooty Hill, Mark Whittaker and Amy Willesee became obsessed with the bizarre names that litter outback Australia. Places where explorers and settlers - lost or disappointed with the harsh landscape - let their suffering and the destruction they caused endure on the map.

The authors decided to spend a year exploring their own Map of Misery. With a four-wheel drive, a tent and a generator-powered fridge, they began a journey to explore the fascinating stories, both historical and contemporary, that lie behind Australia's Mount Treachery and Massacre Lakes. Ending, both literally and figuratively, at Mount Buggery, this book is a travel delight, full of humour, incident and character.