Ebook: Frenchmans Cap: story of a mountain

Author's note; METRIC CONVERSION; TEMPERATURE CONVERSION; ABBREVIATIONS; Foreword; Introduction; 1 A Mountain in Time; 2 The Coming of the White Man; 3 'The Cap of Liberty'; 4 Calder and Strzelecki; 5 The Franklins' Journey; 6 The First Ascents; 7 The Lure of Gold; 8 'The Prince of Tasmanian Explorers'; 9 John Ernest Philp; 10 Along the Crotty Track; 11 More Ascents from the West; 12 'The White Mountain Which Beckons from Afar'; 13 Davern and Anderson Find Philp's Track; 14 A New Era; 15 More Trips along the Track to Frenchmans Cap; 16 The Frenchman's Cap National Park.;Frenchmans Cap tells the story of Australia?s most majestic mountain and 'one of the world's great wilderness walks' - a must for any modern day adventurer in Tasmania. Named by convicts in Macquarie Harbour?s infamous prison in the 1820s, Frenchmans Cap has captured the public imagination as an icon of freedom, adventure, and terrifying danger. From escapee convicts to bushrangers, from pioneer explorers to modern day rock-climbers, this book brings to life the record of many remarkable and life-risking efforts to reach the peak of this mountain. Kleinig treats readers with mysteries such as.