The Scroggin Eaters – A History of Bushwalking in Victoria by Graeme Wheeler

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photographic (illustrator). First Edition. 700 g; 276 pages, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, includes charts, selection of club logos, and the usual statistics and lists of names, as well as and index. In original colour illustrated dust jacket, the dust jacket has slightly lightened. Otherwise the condition of the book would be very good+. Walking club started as a response to the depression of the 1930s, and this book is a history of the evolution of bushwalking Victoria. Size: 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall.

‘Scroggin’ = a mixture of dried fruits, nuts, etc., used as a light but sustaining food by bushwalkers. This account of the evolution of bushwalking in Victoria tells of the joy of discovery, the pleasure of club walking, of conservation issues essential to the outdoors’ survival as a source of recreation. It describes in detail many long walks in the mountains and countryside in Victoria, and has lots of archival photograph