{"product_id":"transit-of-fiordland-by-frank-yardley","title":"Transit of Fiordland by Frank Yardley","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book details what is believed to be the first traverse of the Fiordland National Park wilderness area, New Zealand, in 1973\/74. The author, Frank Yardley, then a ‘hippie’ and Shorty Biddle, a returned World War 2 serviceman, completed the traverse as part of a plan to walk the length of New Zealand’s Southern Alps. These two characters are a generation apart in age and outlook. However, the book is not just a story of the experiences of traversing the remote, difficult and often-untracked terrain, but is a structure to capture details of the history of the region, pre- and post-European arrival, the ‘lost tribes’, explorers, hermits and eccentrics; the geography, flora and fauna, as well as the bush-craft skills required to survive in the breathtakingly beautiful but unforgiving terrain. The story meanders as a memoir and reflection, examining our changing relationship to wildness, nature; the changing lens of our relationship to the world we inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story was developed from letters and a journal of the journey, which enables an immediacy of experience, despite the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67887485976650,"sku":"4057br","price":14.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/4057br_5edb65ed-b99c-49e1-ae31-b36d2b0d1f9e.jpg?v=1793691351","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/transit-of-fiordland-by-frank-yardley","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}