I WAS in Bourke, New South Wales – the outback, that most powerful of Australian words – the edge of the world, where the unknown begins. I was having a break from writing Cold Light and I had my backpack and gear with me, intending to do a trek in that hard country, maybe to look at a geological oddity called Mount Gunderbooka, about sixty kilometres south-west of the dwindling township of Bourke. The mountain name carried within it the word ‘book’.
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Henry Lawson and Walking
Henry Lawson was born in 1867. In this brief examination we look at Henry Lawson’s time in outback NSW in the early 1890’s where he immersed himself in drought conditions for literary ends. He walks with his mate Jim Gordon. Let’s start with Bruce Elder’s piece in the Griffith Review. Now head over to aContinue reading “Henry Lawson and Walking”
The Order Of Walkers 