Doonish wrote:Interestingly, the little supplemental book is still in print - we have a couple of copies at Fullers.
In Hobart ? I asked at Petrach's and Volume 2 in launceston and they couldn't find it ! Do you do post orders ?
Doonish wrote:Interestingly, the little supplemental book is still in print - we have a couple of copies at Fullers.
In Hobart ? I asked at Petrach's and Volume 2 in launceston and they couldn't find it ! Do you do post orders ?
Bill wrote:Dear Facebook friends, I am about to go to the prepress stage and final review of The Abels Volume 1 second edition. The original edition has morphed from 118 pages to 352 pages which over the last two months has been rather intense! The second edition is rather larger in physical size, so that the images are much larger and the print font increased so that it is clearer as well. Every image is new, as well as extensive rewrites. The new book also contains the updated Abel Tables. Please note, that I will be producing a one off limited release of 200 hard covers which will be signed and numbered as part of the new edition. There will be no more hard covers once the 200 are sold. The retail price for these will be $69.95 and the soft covers $39.95. Already many hard covers have been reserved, so if you would like one please let me know. Thank you to everyone of you that have made this fabulous book happen. Kindest regards, as always, Bill.
Lucky you NNW!! I'm sure the wait will of been worth it and the updated version will be every bit as good as the first two Abels books.north-north-west wrote:It's been a long wait. Although some of us have already had extensive previews . . . *extra-smug smirk*
Mechanic-AL wrote:Interesting situation here.
A large number of peaks and access routes covered by the Abels are simply outside the realm of the average weekend bushwalker and so the information provided on these areas is really only of value to a relatively small number of people. But there are also a fair few that could fall into the moderate to easy category. Is the information provided making it too easy for anyone who lays a hand on these books to access places they otherwise wouldn't and in turn increasing the need for more walking infrastructure in the bush ?
If somebody proposed a new boardwalk into Lake Geeves for instance isn't that fundamentally doing the same thing as a copy of the Abels in making it easier to get there?
Every man and his dog will celebrate an update of the Abels but a large number of the same will howl down a new boardwalk development !
I am a HUGE FAN of Bill Wilkinson's books and not such a fan of any sort of bushwalking infrasturucture. Just throwing up a discussion point here. Where is the line in the sand ( or mud ) ??
.Interesting situation here.
A large number of peaks and access routes covered by the Abels are simply outside the realm of the average weekend bushwalker and so the information provided on these areas is really only of value to a relatively small number of people. But there are also a fair few that could fall into the moderate to easy category. Is the information provided making it too easy for anyone who lays a hand on these books to access places they otherwise wouldn't and in turn increasing the need for more walking infrastructure in the bush ?
If somebody proposed a new boardwalk into Lake Geeves for instance isn't that fundamentally doing the same thing as a copy of the Abels in making it easier to get there?
Every man and his dog will celebrate an update of the Abels but a large number of the same will howl down a new boardwalk development !
I am a HUGE FAN of Bill Wilkinson's books and not such a fan of any sort of bushwalking infrasturucture. Just throwing up a discussion point here. Where is the line in the sand ( or mud ) ??
Mechanic-AL wrote:...I wonder how many people going in there rely on the good old spirit of adventure and how many people read everything they can find before setting out ? It shouldn't come as a suprise that with growing numbers heading in there that there is an increased pressure for a dunny. ...
Hallu wrote: To come back to the Abels, where will it be sold ? Any preorder taken ?
Nuts wrote: Al, the counter arguments are open at the ends & make little sense.
Mechanic-AL wrote:As the information provided to people and they gear they use continues to improve it's a no brainer that eventually more people are going to be enticed into the bush and I struggle to see how that can be controlled.
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