A nameless hopeless, distress -- Stuart and the Ghan -- The Alice -- In the Dreaming -- The bitumen -- The jungle -- Demoiselles and bullseyes -- On beachcombing -- Bear into Albatross.
Rum Jungle at the time was a recently discovered uranium
mine. The book's principle theme is the sudden appearance of modern science in a region which has not really been civilised by white man. Anecdotal accounts of the authors travels in northern Australia, mainly NT; includes comments and stories about Aborigines; including Albert Namatjira.
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