Gill & John Souter

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.
John and Gill spend a lot of their time exploring their Shoalhaven environment – often with friends in their local walking club – and are fond of long hikes through mountain ranges when they can travel abroad. 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.