Songlines and fault lines : epic walks of the Red Centre / Glenn Morrison.
Publication details: Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Publishing Limited, 2017.Description: xix, 187 pages : maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780522870985
- Songline and faultlines
- Stories and motifs - Ancestor spirits
- Literature and stories
- Sites - Dreaming tracks
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Social life and customs
- Trails -- Australia, Central
- Travel writing
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Alice Springs (N.T.) -- Social life and customs
- Central Australia - In literature
- Travellers' writings, Australian
- Alice Springs Region (N.T.) - Description and travel
- Aboriginal Australians - Northern Territory - Alice Springs (N.T.) - Social life and customs
- Alice Springs Region (N.T.) - History
- Central Australia -- In literature
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs (N.T.) -- Social life and customs
- Travelers' writings, Australian
- Australia, Central -- In literature
- Finke River (South Central NT SF53-13, SG53-01, SG53-06)
- Mparntwe / Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Northern Territory - Central NT
- South Australia (SA)
- Australia, Central -- In literature
- Australia, Central -- History
- Australia, Central -- Description and travel
- Central Australia -- Description and travel
- Australia, Central -- Discovery and exploration
- Central Australia -- History
- Central Australia -- In literature
- Alice Springs (N.T.) -- Description and travel
- Alice Springs (N.T.) -- History
- Alice Springs Region (N.T.) -- Description and travel
- Alice Springs Region (N.T.) -- History
- Australian
- Australian
- 994.291 23
- DU398.A45 M67 2017
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 994.291 MOR | Available | 067492 |
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-187) and index.
Visitors to the Red centre come looking for the real Australia, but find a place both beautiful and disturbing. There is wilderness, desire and an Aboriginal philosophy of home. But there is also the confusing countenance of the Australian frontier, a meeting place between black and white, ancient and modern. Songlines and fault lines explores the Red Centre through the eyes of those who have walked it, in six remarkable stories. It follows Aboriginal Dreamtime Ancestors along a songline, trudges with John McDouall Stuart as he crosses the continent, and walks the Finke River in the footsteps of anthropologist T.G.H. Strehlow. It keeps pace with conservationist Arthur Groom as he reimagines the country?s heart as tourist playground, ponders a philosophy of walking with British travel writer Bruce Chatwin, and then strolls the grog-troubled streets of Alice Springs with Eleanor Hogan. Retracing time-worn pathways and the tales of Australia?s centre, Gleen Morrison finds fresh answers to age-old queries.
