The Singing Line: Tracking the Australian Adventures of my Intrepid Victorian Ancestors [Audiobook] download free by Alice Thomson
- Listen audiobook: The Singing Line: Tracking the Australian Adventures of my Intrepid Victorian Ancestors
- Author: Alice Thomson
- Release date: 2000/5/29
- Publisher: ANCHOR BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780385497534
- Rating: 7.24 of 10
- Votes: 417
- Review by: Chelsie Ledford
- Review rating: 8.12 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/6
- Duration: 4H5M19S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, ATRAC, MPEG4, FLAC, WMA, MP3 (compression ZIP, RAR, CHM, TZO, TZ)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M37S (5.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 Alice-for whom Alice Springs would be named-left the comfort of Victorian England for the wilds of South Australia, a place so isolated that letters from home took five months to arrive. It was Charles's dream to improve this situtaion. In 1870, Todd set out with an army of men, supplies, and Afghan camels to run a telegraph line-'the singing line'-from Adelaide in the south to Darwin in the north. Braving scorching sun, flies, mosquitoes, drenching rains, and all manner of terrible food, Alice Thomson and her husband retraced that trek more than a century later. The result is a wry and mesmerizing narrative-combining the delights of travel writing, family memoir, and colonial history in a thoroughly enjoyable tale.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Communications Engineering / Telecommunications, Guidebooks, Memoirs, Travel & Holiday Guides, Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military, Biography: Historical, Political & Military
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 23.92 USD
- Dimensions: 126x193x20mm
- Weight: 399g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, NY, United States
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