Bill Purcell, Author at The Bushwalking Blog

Book Review: Hiking the Overland Track (by Warwick Sprawson) – Australia’s favourite bushwalk gets a new guidebook

Posted by Bill Purcell | 31 Mar, 2020 | 0 |

The walk: This guidebook covers the Overland Track in Tasmania’s spectacular Cradle...

Posted by Bill Purcell | 16 Mar, 2020 | 0 |

Junior designer Nemo gives the concertina mat a makeover, catching inventor Thermarest napping....

Posted by Bill Purcell | 9 Feb, 2020 | 0 |

In the night sky, Centauri are the very bright stars which point to our Southern Cross. In stark...

Posted by Bill Purcell | 4 Oct, 2019 | 0 |

American travel writer Paul Theroux said that “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” He’s right...

Posted by Bill Purcell | 15 Aug, 2019 | 2 |

In chess, the Rook – sometimes called the castle – is the least interesting of all the...