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an epic trek around the coast of New Zealand
Brando Yelavich with Nicola McCloy
Wild boy an epic trek around the coast of New Zealand
288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
illustrations (chiefly colour)
Summary: Fast going off the rails and hanging out with the wrong crowd, Brando Yelavich, a 19-year-old from Auckland's North Shore, decided something needed to change. He needed a mission. He was going to walk around New Zealand. Brando reached Cape Reinga after a gruelling journey of almost 8000 kilometres, traversed completely on foot over more than 600 days - the first time it had been done. It was an outlandish odyssey of physical and mental fortitude. He slept under the stars and lived off the land. He almost drowned on several occasions and experienced near-hypothermia. He gained 20 kilograms. But the transformation ran much deeper