Discover a globe of wild, mysterious and audacious journeys In Wild Journeys Bruce Ansley retraces the road from the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe over the Southern Alps, follows the raiding party of the northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast, sails around New Zealand’s northern and southern capes; walks through the Valley beneath the Two Thumb Range to the mythical Mesopotamia; drives from Waiheke to Wanaka (in a rush), cause on a hunt for the South Island’s Gray Ghost, looks deep into the center of volcanic New Zealand and paths our most improbable hero, the jail escaper George Wilder.