Author’s reply
Sir, — John Wilson’s review of “Ways to the Wilderness” was so poor that I write for those who wish to know what the book comprises or who have been persuaded that it is misleading and unoriginal. The text is an abridgment of the Shell guides to the Waikaremoana, Tongariro, Heaphy, Copland, Rees-Dart, Routeburn, Hollyford and Milford tracks. All colour photographs and most black and whites are newly published. These do not show the weather to be “uniformly fine.” To take them I walked all tracks bar Tongariro once only and in average times. From my experience walkers have a 50/50 chance of good weather. To write that someone who walks the Routeburn in rain “may not recognise the Earland Falls as the book shows them” is absurd; one could as easily state the reverse. Where have the like of my pictures “been seen in too many volumes etc . . .”? This is the first book of this nature to portray walking tracks. —- Yours, etc.,
PHILIP TEMPLE Little Akaloa, February 10, 1978.
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