Songlines and Fault Lines

Author(s): Morrison, Glenn

Travel Stories

Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia. What they find is both beautiful and disturbing- wilderness, desire, an ancient philosophy of home, and the confusing countenance of the Australian frontier, a meeting place of black and white, ancient and modern. Songlines and Fault Lines explores the stories of six epic walks that shaped a nation- a journey of Aboriginal Dreamtime ancestors; John Stuart's south-north trek across the continent; anthropologist TGH Strehlow's childhood journey down the Finke River; conservationist Arthur Groom's reimagining of the country's heart as tourist play-ground; Bruce Chatwin's seminal travel text about the Centre, and Eleanor Hogan's portrait of Alice Springs, a troubled town. Retracing the legendary pathways and stories of the Australian centre, Glenn Morrison finds new answers to age-old queries.

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Glenn Morrison is a writer and journalist who lives in Alice Springs and teaches journalism at the University of Sydney. In his spare time he walks the red desert hills that surround his home.

General Fields

  • : 9780522870985
  • : Melbourne University Publishing
  • : Melbourne University Press
  • : 0.287
  • : May 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : Australia
  • : July 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : JFS
  • : 277
  • : 305
  • : English
  • : 817
  • : Paperback
  • : Morrison, Glenn