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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385497539
• ISBN13: 9780385497534
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.6"

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.