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Daywalks Around Victoria
By Glenn Tempest (Open Spaces Publishing, 2011, $29.95, osp.com.au)

If guides were judged on looks alone this walking guide to 36 day walks around Victoria would be a supermodel compared to most other walking guides. Daywalks Around Victoria is beautifully illustrated with superb images and a stylish layout that makes it a joy to flick through. The descriptions are clear and concise, the maps are good, it has elevation profiles, while most importantly, the choice of walks is excellent, ranging from long-standing classics in the Grampians and the High Country to new walks in relatively unknown areas like the Pyrite Range (which is ridiculously close to Melbourne).
It also had some nice added extras, as each described walk is available as a free download from osp.com.au (where you can also find updates on track changes or closures), as either a GPX file for use in a GPS, or as a KMZ file to be opened directly in Google Earth.
This guide sets a new standard for walking guides in Australia.