Walking Canberra

“Walking Canberra: 101 Ways to See Australia’s National Capital on Foot” is set mainly in the metropolitan area of the city with excursions into the countryside. Walks along rivers, creeks, wetlands and around lakes are included. Descriptions of public art trails and walks in the national arboretum are standouts. The book of 160 pp has maps and photographs including a striking picture of a wedge-tailed eagle.

Canberra is a treasure house for walkers. Tracks abound on the peaks, hills and plains and along creeks, rivers and lakes. Further afield, the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and Namadgi National Park, both within the Australian Capital Territory, have many marked trails while their thousands of hectares of challenging bushland and mountains attract the adventurous who love working out their own routes.

Three of the walks described in this book are located at Tidbinbilla and Namadgi, but most are within the metropolitan or urban area of Australia's capital city. They show that walkers don't have to engage in lengthy drives to get to starting points. Rather a stimulating walk may be just down the road.

Two of the more thought-provoking are in what is known variously as Civic or City Centre and take walkers on controversial public art trails.

Why 101 tracks? Read the Introduction to find out! Graeme Barrow is a Canberra journalist who has written numerous books on bushwalking in the Canberra region and several local histories.Published 2014