http://wikiski.com/wiki/index.php/Bushwalking_guide_books
Then you'll love the link in my last post!
Well I'm not sure if taswaterfalls is giving you full loving credit there
-- but I'd like to say a big thanks for that link - Nice one!
I have a small handful of these books too, but I like the qualitative assessment of them from a guy who sounds like he may know his field well.
There are a couple that I'll probably seek out and buy, and a couple too that I might think again about, after reading the complete page.
For my money, I think he (David Sisson) is right in rating the Chapman's books as up there with the 'best in breed'.
From what I understand from Outdoor Retailers from Darwin to Cockle Creek - um I mean, from Melbourne to Devonport - the 5th Edition of J. Chapman's Sth West Tas book is most eagerly (if not impatiently) awaited.
I too, have always had issues with Tyrone's funny maps - although I did not know that he had 'retired'. And the comment about the walking in cowboy boots leaves me mystified.....
But do you have this book?
I have it, and its supplement.
I have it (although you weren't asking me) , but not its supplement.
It's currently in storage, but I'd swear the cover doesn't look the same as that..
I bought it on a 'leaving Tasmania - Last Day!' frenzy, when I'd habitually buy anything that looked like it was self-published, rare, or possibly hard-to-find on the mainland.
I believe, in my haste at the time, that I surmised that The Abels were a range I hadn't heard of, maybe round the Western Arthurs or somewhere near the Eldon Range..
I could be wrong, but it seems like a LONG time ago that I bought this Abels Vol 1 though - is the original publishing date known?
And Vol 2 is still coming?
It IS a lot of mountains to cover.......