Journeying has always been part of the mountains story, but of particular significance in this bicentenary year. As well as the tale of the wayfinders' traverse of the Blue Mountains barrier two centuries ago, here there are accounts of many earlier and later mountains journeys, coming right up to the present time.

You will read of journeys by indigenous peoples, colonial explorers and surveyors, fortune-seekers, travellers heading west, wagoners, marauders, rail travellers and workers, holidaymakers, settlers, commuters, trailblazers and ramblers, cyclists and motorists.

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The Blue Mountains are the setting for a dominant narrative of early Australian exploration, the First Crossing by European explorers in 1813. The 'First Crossing' or the legend of the Three Explorers (Gregory Blaxland, William Charles Wentworth and William Lawson) was a tale of great adventure and achievement which not only tied the past firmly to the present, but also continued the trajectory from past to present into a glorious future. This book examines the commemoration of the First Crossing through poetry, literature, and visual images as well as ceremonies, re-enactments, monuments and plaques. With the celebration of the First Crossing Bicentenary in 2013, this account of earlier commemorative efforts has special resonance.

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