Songlines and Fault Lines: Epic Walks of the Red Centre
Songlines and Fault Lines: Epic Walks of the Red Centre by Glenn Morrison
English | July 31, 2017 | ISBN: 0522870988 | EPUB | 223 pages | 1.8 MB
English | July 31, 2017 | ISBN: 0522870988 | EPUB | 223 pages | 1.8 MB
Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia. What they find is both beautiful and disturbing: wilderness, desire, an ancient philosophy of home, and the confusing countenance of the Australian frontier, a meeting place of black and white, ancient and modern.
Songlines and Fault Lines explores the stories of six epic walks that shaped a nation: a journey of Aboriginal Dreamtime ancestors; John Stuart’s south–north trek across the continent; anthropologist TGH Strehlow’s childhood journey down the Finke River; conservationist Arthur Groom’s reimagining of the country’s heart as tourist play-ground; Bruce Chatwin’s seminal travel text about the Centre, and Eleanor Hogan’s portrait of Alice Springs, a troubled town.
Retracing the legendary pathways and stories of the Australian centre, Glenn Morrison finds new answers to age-old queries.