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A Walk-About in Australia
About this book
Philippa Bridges crossed Australia one hundred years ago, supported by an Aboriginal Tracker, Macumba Jack and a Lubra named Topsy. Over 600 of those miles, from Macumba Station in South Australia, to Darwin, she travelled by camel.'Her most ambitious undertaking was to cross Australia from south to north, approximately along the route of the transcontinental telegraph line. Her companions were an aboriginal boy and lubra. She was profoundly impressed by the loneliness of the great empty spaces, but even more so by the courage and kindliness of those who dwell in these solitudes. Darwin has a somewhat invidious reputation, of which Miss Bridges was not unaware, but she has a good word for the town. "Certain it is, " she writes, "that one hears the worst of it, but none of the best of it, long before may arrives there." But she can only speak of it as she fount it like other parts of Australia. A place of real hospitality and pleasant friendships.' - Sydney Morning Herald, 1926
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1. Adelaide to Oodnadatta; Quorn, William Creek, Anna Creek, Oodnadatta, Macumba Station, meeting Topsy and the tracker Macumba Jack; Blood’s Creek, Charlotte Waters, New Crown
- 2. Black Hill, Old Crown Point, Paddy’s Plain, the Finke River, Horse Shoe Bend, Depot Sand-Hills, Alice Well, Wire Creek Soakage, Alice Spring
- 3. Simpson’s Gap, Emily Gap, Alice Springs, Connor’s Well, Ryan’s Well,
- 4. Ti-tree Well, Central Mount Stuart, Hanson’s Well, Stirling Station, Barrow Creek, Taylor’s Well, Wycliffe Well, The Devil’s Marbles, Tennant’s Creek,
- 5. Tennant’s Creek, Attack Creek, Banka Banka, Helen Springs, Powell’s Creek, Newcastle Waters, Stuart’s Plains,
- 6. MacGorey’s Bore, Daly Waters, Number One Bore, Elsey Station, Maranboy, Rockhole, Five Mile Hole, Edith River, Pine Creek, to Darwin,