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The Long Walk: Queenscliff to Adelaide - Couverture souple

Morrison, G.E.

 
9781923205703: The Long Walk: Queenscliff to Adelaide
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1923205706 ISBN 13 : 9781923205703
Editeur : ETT Imprint, 2025

Synopsis

George Morrison is perhaps best-known as an intrepid Australian journalist during the Boxer Rebellion, and for his walk across China. Well before this, at age 17, he started what he called his Long Walk - over 1200 kilometres from Queenscliff in Victoria to Adelaide from late December to the end of February.

Morrison wrote a candid diary of his meeting with settlers and the difficulties he found, the drama of finding food and direction when tracks were often non-existent. All on a budget of 6 pounds 14 shillings and 6 pence! In a world of few signposts - and no GPS - Morrison performed the first of his several Long Walks around Australia. Also included herein is his walk across the Continent from 1883.

The harshness of the environment he walks through coupled with the heat of the day, as he was walking in the hottest months of the year, makes Morrison's Long Walk especially noteworthy. He captures aspects of Australian life which on the surface appear to be quite different to life in Australia today, however fundamentally they are the same and very little has changed in the character of Australians since 1880 which I am sure Morrison would find gratifying. - Alan Ventress, from his Introduction.

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Éditeur
ETT Imprint
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1923205706
ISBN 13 
9781923205703
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
78
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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