The singing line
By: Alice Thomson
Series: Compass Press large print book series; Compass Press large print book series
Publisher: Melbourne; Compass
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780753154700
Subjects: Journeys; Telegraph; History; Large type books; Description and travel; Livres en gros caractères; Descriptions et voyages; Large print books; Travel; Voyages and travels
Description: An inpoverished young scientist from Greenwich, he took up the post of Goernment Astronomer and Superintendent of Telegraphs for South Australia. His mission? To string a telegraph wire across one of the last uncrossed colonial widernesses, and finally to connect Australia with Britain, a near-impossible task. With him went his young wife alice, a spirited and intrepid woman years ahead of her time, after whom Alice Springs would be named. In 1997, their great-great-granddaughter, also named Alice, embarked on the adventure of a lifetime, following their footsteps across the Great Australian emptiness. Her plan was to track the telegraph, and her ancestors, from Adelaide over the thousands of miles ofdesert, outback, swamp and mountain that charles Todd had crossed with his men a century and a half before.
Notes: Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1999.