Songlines and Fault Lines

Epic Walks of the Red Centre

Glenn Morrison
Paperback
Added to basketCheckout →
Ships in 4-6 weeks
Other formats available
Songlines and Fault Lines

Published

31 July 2017

ISBN

9780522870985

Pages

208

Imprint

Melbourne University Press

Songlines and Fault Lines

Epic Walks of the Red Centre

Glenn Morrison
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 that have shaped our nation. 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 stories…
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 that have shaped our nation. 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 stories of Australia's centre, Glenn Morrison finds fresh answers to age-old queries.

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Songlines and Fault Lines is the manner in which Morrison portrays walking in Central Australia as a creative and richly symbolic as well as a physical experience.”
David Carment, Charles Darwin University

An original and haunting examination of the 'affect' of a place on society. ”
Jeff Popple

Superb ... a book that could not have been written by sitting still. ”
Robert Macfarlane

Glenn Morrison

Glenn Morrison

Glenn Morrison is a writer and journalist who lives in Alice Springs. He has taught journalism at the University of Sydney and mentors Indigenous students through Charles Sturt University. In his spare time he walks the red desert hills that surround his home.

More

Paperback
Added to basketCheckout →
Ships in 4-6 weeks
Other formats available