The Singing Line: Tracking the Australian Adventures of My Intrepid Victorian Ancestors

By Alice Thomson

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385490593
• ISBN13: 9780385490597
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Foundations!

This was truly an amazing book. The author involves you in the very foundations that build up the Australian telegraph system - you become part of the history as she takes you through the life of her great-great-grandmother and grandfather. It reveals, once again, how many people gave up so much so that we can have a secure foundation in our society. Well worth owning.