Victoria Off The Beaten Track: Sixty Plus Four-Wheel Drive
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Victoria Off The Beaten Track: Sixty Plus Four-Wheel Drive is the 2010 bible for anyone who wants to swap crowded tourist routes for empty wheel-tracks, creek crossings and mountaintop campsites. Anthony McLaren’s 224-page, fully illustrated reference guide pinpoints more than 60 rigorously tested 4×4 trips that begin where the bitumen ends: the Victorian High Country’s ghost-town fire trails, the Otways’ fern-lined creek beds, the Grampians’ razor-back ridges and the remote deserts of the far north-west. Each entry lists graded difficulty, fuel range, GPS way-points, seasonal closures and nearby campsites, so first-time drivers and seasoned tourers can match vehicle, tyres and recovery gear to the track before they leave home.
What makes this copy especially attractive is its clean, unmarked interior—no scribbles, no folded corners—so every map, elevation profile and colour photograph remains crisp for dashboard reference. The paperback is light enough to slip into a glovebox yet tough enough to survive being thumbed through with dusty gloves. Rosella Publications laid the book out in a logical north-to-south order, and McLaren’s clear prose explains not just “where” but “why” the detour is worthwhile: the 1890s gold-stamper battery you can still walk through, the river flat where platypus surface at dusk, or the alpine hut that serves as emergency shelter when the snow arrives early.
Collectors and travellers rate the 2010 first-printing because it captures tracks before later floods and park re-classifications permanently closed several gates—information later editions had to delete. Whether you’re planning a long-weekend escape from Melbourne, compiling a state-wide bucket list for the school holidays, or simply love arm-chair exploring from the comfort of home, this illustrated, un-inscribed copy of Victoria Off The Beaten Track is the most practical, adventure-packed reference you can carry without needing satellite data or battery life.
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