Buy Mike and Tom’s reading companion to the Top End.
Nature, Mike and a colourful collection of nature-loving travellers take the spotlight in his book. “True Tales of an Outback Guide, or or Why Kangaroos Go Boing Boing Boing” is available to buy online here.
About True Tales of an Outback Guide
Fit as a trout, furnished with a droll take on the sillier aspects of urban life and a clear-eyed view of just how lucky he is, Mike Keighley is the very modelThe process, either mathematically or in the human brain, of creating an internal version of something that we can refer to, to better understand how it functions and our place within. Scientific modelling is where we take the best knowledge we have and build a version of what will happen, if we assume certain parameters. For example, we might model More of the modern wildlife guide. Mike’s mate and the book’s co-author Tom Huth is an American journalist. He’s silver-tongued enough to entice top travel magazines to consistently pay his passage to hang around with characters like Mike.
Tom calls his friend a “go-anywhere, do-anything backcountry guide”. The whole human caravan seems to have arrived at Mike’s door at some time or another. A diverse retinue populate his campfire stories and now the written version of Mike’s adventures.
From abstemious Japanese monks to inebriated Russian film crews, plucky septuagenarians, celebrity make-up artists, demented deckhands and false prophets, all have sought his company.
This is Mike’s story – the TRUE tales of an outback bushman.
Meet Mike Keighley
“I did wonder why people were so irrationally afraid of wildlife, and how that could be changed,” Mike says.
“People feared things in nature that would rarely hurt them, but didn’t fear things like highway traffic and cigarettes that they had excellent reasons to fear.
“I thought that if they could go out bush and see things through my eyes, they’d have some perspective. They wouldn’t be so afraid,” he says.
“If you want to get away from the ‘maddening’ crowds, in an area where you can almost hear your heartbeat, and hear stories of a culture that we could do well to learn from – you would be welcome,” Mike says.
“It seems that as much as we might fight it man is a spiritual being as well as physical.A nd whilst our physical side screams for attention for food, drink, nice things etc, we tend to neglect satisfying our spiritual side. Getting out bush away from city lights, noise pollution, and even people seems to help us clear our heads from a lot of physical stuff and helps refocus,” he says.
