In 1930 the author embarked on a remarkable journey, 50,000 miles across the Australian bush, a woman alone. By aeroplane, camel, ship, truck and packhorse, she travelled from Broome to Coober Pedy, from the Kimberleys to the Nullarbor beyond. Her account of outback life at the time, the great cattle stations, aboriginal culture, ghost towns, the pearling industry and much more make for enchanting reading.
Contents:
Book 1: Ports of Sunset
1. A Morning Spin
2. Where Streets are Paved with Pearl
3. Towns that Blow Away
4. Black Ivory
5. Old Hands
6. A Fence Across Australia
7. Port of Pearls
8. In Sheba Lane
9. Graves of a Thousand Divers
10. A Swaggie in Kimberley
11. Whiskey Crossing
12. The Hall's Creek Mail
13. The Jockey in Black
Book 2: Royal Mantle of the Tropics
14. Apex of Australia
15. A Living Jig-saw Puzzle
16. Kingdom of the Crocodile
17. Darwin Court
18. God's First Humans
19. Corroboree
20. The Making of a Man
21. Australia's Crown of Gold and Pearls
22. Ulysses of the Gulf
23. The Rim of Arnhem Land
24. Half-caste: A Living Tragedy
25. Evangelists of Many Nations
26. The Last of the Beach-combers
Book 3: The Living Heart
27. Mysterious Nullarbor
28. With the Cave Men of Coober Pedy
29. Across the Steel-clad Desert
30. The Strange Case of Mrs Witchetty
31. Star and Crescent in Australia
32. The Ghosts of Cooper's Creek
33. 'Sunset' of Oodnadatta
34. A Week on a Camel
35. Realms of Gold
36. Wonderful of the Alice
37. Kai-umen's Skull
38. Lubra: A Heroine in Charcoal
39. The Legion of the Lost Ones
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