Birdsville my year in the back of beyond

$26.95

To find out, Evan McHugh packed up his Sydney home, bought a four-wheel drive and headed off with his wife for a year in the back of beyond.  Here, he tells us of the large adventures – midnight desert rescues, aerial mustering on vast cattle stations, relentless heat and massive floods – but also the small details of life in one of Australia’s most isolated towns – like driving 700 kilometres to go shopping.  As the month fly by, Evan learns about an ancient culture, sees dunes carpeted in millions of tiny wildflowers, and meets the members of an outback community facing extraordinary challenges with quiet determination and buckets of good humour.

 

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For a town with seventy residents (on a good day), Birdsville is remarkably well known – the Birdsville Track, the rodeo, the pub, the infamous races.  With its ruggedness, inaccessibility and larrikin charm, this small town on the edge of the Simpson Desert has become a symbol of the great Australian outback.

Birdsville is about the breathtaking beauty and harshness of the country, the generosity of its salt of the earth people, and one man’s discovery of his own reserve of courage and resilience.

 

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Weight .300 kg
Dimensions 19.5 × 12.5 × 2 cm

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