Great Australian Journeys

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accessed August 2015; there have been at least another eleven attempts to find Leichhardt since the first search parties went out, ; according to the Australian Dictionary of Biography entry on the bushman Walter Smith, Joe Harding was involved in stealing horses, cattle and camels, sometimes known as ‘tea and sugar bushranging’.

  NAMING THE DESERT

  ‘I said, “Well, can you shoe?”: Ernest Giles, Australia Twice Traversed: The romance of exploration: Being a narrative compiled from the journals of five exploring expeditions into and through central South Australia, and Western Australia from 1872 to 1876, S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1889.

  LASSETER’S FIRST FIND

  Billy Marshall-Stoneking, Lasseter: The making of a legend, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1985; Fred Blakely, Dream Millions: New light on Lasseter’s lost reef, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1972.

  THE WARATAH MYSTERY

  ‘I first noticed something peculiar’: Board of Trade wreck report for ‘Waratah’, 1909; In 1915, an Irish soldier: The Argus, 19 August 1915, Melbourne, p. 9.

  THE DIAMOND FLIGHT

  Tony Barass, ‘Captain Smirnoff and the $20m Diamond’, The Australian, 3 March 2012, accessed October 2015; the author’s personal correspondence. It is usually said that the same Zero returned to bomb the survivors. However, as these planes only carried two bombs, it must have been another Zero that attacked the second time.

  TAMAN SHUD

  Derek Abbott, ‘On the Trail of the Somerton Man’, The Huffington Post, 6 June 2015, accessed October 2015; the most comprehensive set of sources is that compiled by Professor Derek Abbott, Adelaide University at accessed October 2015; see also G.M. Feltus, The Unknown Man: A suspicious death at Somerton beach, privately published, Greenacres, South Australia, 2010. Feltus investigated the case as a police officer and subsequently as a private investigator.

  ROAMING GNOMES

  Museum of Hoaxes ; Graham Seal, Great Australian Urban Myths, 2nd edn., HarperCollins, Sydney, 2001, pp. 142–3; for more gnome journeys see .

  TIGGA’S TRAVELS

  One of many treatments of the tale can be found at ; see also .

  5. COMING AND GOING

  PLATYPUS DREAMING

  ‘The bark of some of the Eucalypti’: Charles Darwin’s New South Wales notebook, January 1836, p. 526, at .

  MARCH TO NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN

  Paul Jones, Chinese Australian Journeys: Records on travel, migration and settlement, 1860–1975, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 2005, p. 14; ‘The Walk from Robe’, SBS (from the Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo) ; The South Australian Register, 31 January 1852, Adelaide, p. 3.

  SPIDER WOMAN

  ‘The full perfection of her frame’: State Library of New South Wales accessed May 2016; Michael Cannon, ‘Montez, Lola (1818–1861)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, ; ‘There are few leaders of the newspaper’: New York Times, 21 January 1861, New York City at accessed August 2015.

  BLACK LORDS OF SUMMER

  ‘considered to be one of the hundred defining’: ‘Defining moments in Australian history’, National Museum of Australia accessed May 2016; ‘After a game played at the Oval’: The Bendigo Advertiser, 19 August 1868, Bendigo, p. 3; Ashley Mallet, The Black Lords of Summer, University of Queensland, St Lucia, 2002.

  STEAMSHIP TO MELBOURNE

  ‘We went below to see our future home’: ‘Journeys to Australia’ Museum of Victoria accessed May 2016; Geelong Advertiser, 17 November 1874, Geelong, p. 2; The Argus, 17 November 1874, Melbourne, p. 4.

  THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIES

  Mark Twain, Following the Equator (also published as More Tramps Abroad), American Publishing Company, Hartford, 1897.

  SONS OF EMPIRE

  As Harry Leigh Pink, the Canadian writer of boys’ own yarns, recollected in 1959, ‘frontiersmen have always been found in the most unlikely places’ accessed May 2016; ‘The younger son he’s earned his bread’: ‘Stray Papers by a Private’, The Canadian Scottish, Rosemount Press, Aberdeen, 1915, p. 34; Robert H. MacDonald, The Language of Empire: Myths and metaphors of popular imperialism, 1880–1918, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1994.

  THE GREAT WHITE FLEET

  ‘Our allies, friends and brothers’: Freeman’s Journal, 6 August 1908, Sydney, p. 17.

  THE MIGRANT LORD

  The Advertiser, 26 May 1925, Adelaide, p. 17; Michael Roe, Australia, Britain and Migration, 1915–1940: A study of desperate hopes, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002; Lord and Lady Apsley, The Amateur Settlers, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1926.

  6. JOURNEYS OF THE HEART

  THE LADY ON THE SAND

  ‘I felt that its correct place’: Louis de Freycinet, Voyage Historique, vol. I, p. 449; ‘The de Vlamingh plate they retrieved’: Marc Serge Riviere (trans. and ed.), A Woman of Courage: The journal of Rose de Freycinet on her voyage around the world, 1817–1820, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1996, pp. 51–2.

  PLEADING THE BELLY

  The Times, 18 October 1791, London, p. 3.

  MY HEART IS STILL UNCHANGED

  The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner, 1822, accessed August 2015; Sarah was in fact transported for stealing a very large amount of clothing and material, probably from a shop. See Michael C. Flynn, The Second Fleet: Britain’s grim convict armada of 1790, Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1993, p. 610.

  FOOTSTEPS OF THE SAINT

  Mary was a great letter writer and her writings are considered an important aspect of her life and legacy. They can be accessed through the official St Mary MacKillop website .

  AN AUSTRALIAN LADY TRAVELS

  Australian Town and Country Journal, 19 March 1892, Sydney, p. 35.

  LES DARCY’S GIRL

  ‘Darcy is always smiling’: Referee, 7 February 1917, San Francisco, p. 8; ‘ Way down in the USA’: ‘No, he would have been a farmer’: Ruth Park, ‘In Search of Les Darcy in America’, part 1, at accessed May 2015. See also Sydney Sportsman, 11 July 1917, Sydney, p. 7.

  CAB ACROSS THE NULLARBOR

  ‘The lady was large, very vocal’: The Cumberland Argus, 14 September 1955, Parramatta, p. 1; ‘Primarily I undertook the trip to collect’: Sunday Times, 23 January 1955, Perth, pp. 1, 3.

  A CRUSH OF CRABS

  Watch the event on video at .

  ON THE HIPPIE TRAIL

  For an extended account of an Australian on the hippie trail in 1974 see ‘A brief history of the hippie trail’, accessed May 2016; Andrew Anthony, ‘On the trail of the serpent: The fatal charm of Charles Sobhraj’, GQ magazine, 11 April 2014, at accessed May 2016.

  DOING THE DOUGHNUT

  .

  7. THE TRACK

  THE ROAD WEST

  ‘A Narrative of Proceedings
of William Cox, Esq., of Clarendon . . . in the Years 1814 & 1815’. Windsor and Richmond Gazette, 31 July 1931, Windsor, p. 12.

  ROADS TO RUIN

  ‘Well we chucked our blooming swags’: quoted in a story by A.B. Paterson, ‘In No Man’s Land’, The Chronicle, 10 March 1900, Adelaide pp 35–6; ‘I’m a broken-hearted shearer’: The Queenslander, 13 October 1894, Brisbane, p. 692.

  BY TRAIN TO HOBART TOWN

  Launceston Examiner, 10 February 1876, Launceston, p. 4.

  TRUDGING THROUGH PURGATORY

  Henry Lawson, While the Billy Boils, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1896.

  THE STARS FOR A LANTERN

  ‘TRIPOS’ (Jennacubbine) Western Mail, 13 May 1937, Perth, p. 10.

  HARDSHIPS OF THE TRACK

  The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal, 21 April 1933, Braidwood, p. 1.

  BACK OF THE MILKY WAY

  North Queensland Register, 15 February 1926, p. 90, in ‘On the Track’ section.

  KIANDRA TO KOSCIUSZKO

  The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 January 1934, Sydney, p. 14.

  A FORGOTTEN WAY

  John Blay, On Track: Searching out the Bundian Way, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2015. The Bundian Way was given New South Wales heritage listing in 2013.

  8. WORKING WAYS

  HURDY-GURDY GIRLS

  ‘Those ubiquitous German girls with cracked voices’: Empire, 19 November 1860, Sydney, p. 2; ‘Tens of thousands of miners’: The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, 23 December 1893, Sydney, p. 1.

  COBB & CO TO MELBOURNE

  ‘Such a journey, on a ‘Cobbs’ coach’: Douglas Sellick (ed.), Venus in Transit: Australia’s woman travellers 1788–1930, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2003; Kurt Ganzl, ‘Soldene, Emily (1838?–1912)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004.

  ACROSS THE BORDER

  Bendigo Advertiser, 5 November 1881, Bendigo, p. 1S.

  WAY OF THE CHARLATAN

  The La Trobe Journal, no. 28, October 1981, Melbourne, pp. 95–6.

  RAZING THE RODNEY

  ‘At the same moment his fireman’: Truth, 2 September 1894, Sydney, p. 3; The arsonists gave three cheers: Dennis O’Keeffe, Waltzing Matilda: The secret history of Australia’s favourite song, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2012.

  THE MAGIC LANTERN MAN

  Warren Fahey, Joe Watson: traditional singer, Australian Folklore Unit, Paddington, 1975.

  TRAVELLING TEACHERS

  Janet Campbell, ‘1901: The first year of Queensland’s itinerant teaching service’, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol. 2, part 2, 2002, p. 240; Morning Bulletin, 16 November 1936, Rockhampton, p. 5.

  THE ROAD URCHIN

  ‘I painted it up brightly’: ‘The Saw Doctor’s Wagon’, video recording, Culture Victoria ;‘like a bower bird’s nest on wheels’: Barking Spider Visual Theatre group, ; ‘Saw Doctor’s Wagon’, National Museum of Australia accessed May 2016.

  JUMPING THE RATTLERS

  ‘He was a young Australian’: Daily Mercury, 2 April 1932, Mackay, p. 2; ‘came a terrible gutzer’: Daily Mercury, 22 April 1925, Mackay, p. 2; ‘What have you been doing’: The Newcastle Sun, 27 August 1930, Newcastle, p. 8.

  SYDNEY TO DARWIN ON A NINE-BOB PONY

  Glen Innes Examiner, 12 July 1938, Glen Innes, p. 6; ‘Miss Howard has had a variety’: Maryborough Chronicle, 14 April 1939, Maryborough, Vic., p. 8; ‘she went to Darwin and thence’: The Daily News, 26 August 1940, Perth, p. 14.

  FOREIGN FABLES

  Graham Seal, The Cane-Toad High: Great Australian urban myths, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2001.

  9. LEAVING

  BY JUSTICE DOES SHE FLOAT

  John Mulvaney, The Axe Had Never Sounded: Place, people and heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania, ANU Press, Canberra, 2007.

  THE GREAT TREK

  Grapevine, vol. 13, no. 3, September 2013; Noris Ioannou, Barossa Journeys: Into a valley of tradition, Paringa Press, Kent Town, South Australia, 1997.

  THE LONGEST DROVE

  Keith McKenzie, ‘They Paved the Way: Australian pioneering stories’, Mudgee Guardian, Mudgee, 1980.

  THE LAST RIDE

  Adam Lindsay Gordon, Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes, Clarson, Massina & Co, Melbourne, 1870.

  NEW AUSTRALIA BOUND

  ‘No doubt you think by this time’: The Queenslander, 13 October 1894, Brisbane, p. 712; ‘The excitement caused by Casey’: Brisbane Courier, 9 July 1894, Brisbane, p. 3; ‘shook the dust of Australian soil’: The Argus, 25 January 1896, Melbourne, p. 6; there are still descendants of the New Australians: Laurence Blair, ‘Nueva Londres: where Paraguay, Australia and Great Britain converge’, The Guardian, 7 July 2015, accessed May 2016.

  A SNOWBALL MARCH

  The Farmer and Settler from October 1915 ran a regular feature reported by one of their journalists who travelled with the marchers under the title ‘Coo-ees Column’, accessed August 2015.

  MAY GIBBS TAKES THE TRANS

  Birregurra Times, 27 August 1918, Birregurra, Vic., p. 2 (reprinted from the Sydney Sun), accessed June 2016.

  A GLIMPSE INTO ETERNITY

  Times, 24 May 1996, Victor Harbour, South Australia, p. 11.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Many people assisted with the making of this book. Thanks to Maureen Seal, Rob Willis, Olya Willis, Mark Gregory, Warren Fahey, and the friendly staff at Allen & Unwin.

  PHOTO CREDITS

  Page xiv: The Dutch trader Duyfken.

  Page 22: Sir Douglas Mawson on the Aurora, circa 1911, courtesy of the State Library of Victoria

  Page 50: Francis Birtles with his bicycle, Sydney, courtesy of the National Library of Australia

  Page 80: The 1930 ‘CAGE’ expedition led by Lasseter through Central Australian, courtesy the State Library of New South Wales

  Page 104: A portrait of Lola Montez, courtesy of Getty Images

  Page 123: Bea Miles on one of her taxi trips, by Harry Martin, courtesy of Fairfax Photos

  Page 162: A swagman with his pack, Yass region, New South Wales, 1910, courtesy of the National Library of Australia

  Page 188: The tinker, Harold Wright, and his daughter, Narrandera, New South Wales, 1953 by Jeff Carter, courtesy of the Estate of Jeff Carter and the National Library of Australia

  Page 220: The commencement of a Coo-ees route march to Sydney, courtesy of the Australian War Memorial

 

 

 

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