Since beginning to tramp as a teenager in the Kaweka and Ruahine ranges, SHAUN BARNETT has tramped the length and breadth of New Zealand. After first working for the Department of Conservation, he turned to writing and photography, and co-wrote with Rob Brown the Montana Awardwinning Classic Tramping in New Zealand. Shaun has written several other best-selling guidebooks, edited Wilderness magazine between 1999 and 2003, and is currently the editor of the Federated Mountain Clubs' Bulletin. His most recent book (with Rob Brown and Geoff Spearpoint) is Shelter from the Storm: The story of New Zealand's backcountry huts, which won the New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award in 2013. CHRIS MACLEAN is a Wellington historian, writer, photographer and publisher, with a keen interest in the outdoors. He has written a number of acclaimed books, including Tararua: The story of a mountain range, Wellington: Telling tales, and Kapiti, which won the Montana Award for History and Biography in 2000. Chris has also written two biographies, John Pascoe and Stag Spooner: Wild Man from the Bush. He is the greatgrandson of George Whitcombe, founder of Whitcombe & Tombs, and keeps the family tradition alive through his own publishing imprint, The Whitcombe Press.
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