Gillian and John Souter live in a village in Jervis Bay and have enjoyed recreational walking for many years.

As well as this book on the Shaolhaven they have also written two another Woodslane guides, Best, Coast and Village Walks of the Illawarra and Best Walks of the Southern Highlands, plus three books on walking in Europe: Classic Walks in Western Europe, Walking Italy and Walking France.

Their title Slow Journeys is an entertaining ramble among the pleasures and practicalities of walking.

John and Gillian Souter are the authors of various guide books for Woodslane, covering the best walks in NSW’s Shoalhaven, Illawarra, Southern Highlands and Central Coast as well as Australia’s Red Centre. They have also written three books on walking in Europe (Classic Walks of Western Europe, Walking France and Walking Italy) and Gillian has penned Slow Journeys, a useful book on the pleasures and practicalities of distance walking.

They complement each other as a guide-writing team: John likes nothing more than to study maps and plan new walks while Gill reins in his more fanciful ideas, road tests walks with him and takes photos along the way