The Singing Line

The Singing Line
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780385497534
ISBN-13 : 0385497539
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Book Synopsis The Singing Line by : Alice Thomson

Download or read book The Singing Line written by Alice Thomson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition of Daisy Bates in the Desert and In Patagonia, Alice Thomson conjures up a country of unimaginable strangeness and beauty. 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 situtaion. 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.


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