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Publisher: Anchor Books
Publication Date: 2000-10-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0385497539
ISBN-13: 9780385497534
Product ID: EPID1747770
Description: British columnist Alice Thomson traces the route of her great-grandfather across the Australian outback as he installed the country's first telegraph wire. Juxtaposing her own travelogue against her great-grandfather's, Thomson illustrat...
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Synopsis
British columnist Alice Thomson traces the route of her great-grandfather across the Australian outback as he installed the country's first telegraph wire. Juxtaposing her own travelogue against her great-grandfather's, Thomson illustrates how the country has changed between generations, and provides a double perspective on the Australian countryside.

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Publication Date:2000-10-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:304 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:10.4 oz

Publisher's Note
In 1855, Charles Todd and his impetuous young bride, Alice for whom Alice Springs would be named left the comfort of Victorian England for the wilds of South Australia, a place so isolated that letters from home took five months to arrive. It was Charles's dream to improve this situation. In 1870, Todd set out with an army of men, supplies, and Afghan camels to run a telegraph line "the singing line" from Adelaide in the south to Darwin in the north.
Braving scorching sun, flies, mosquitoes, drenching rains, and all manner of terrible food, Alice Thomson and her husband retraced that trek more than a century later. The result is a wry and mesmerizing narrative combining the delights of travel writing, family memoir, and colonial history in a thoroughly enjoyable tale.

Industry Reviews
"Charles Todd and his wife Alice may have been footnotes in colonial history but they embodied the nineteenth-century pioneer spirit: their story is a fascinating tale of romance, derring-do and true British grit."
Literary Review - Sebastian Shakespeare (10/19/1999)

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