Roaming Round the Darling with Frank Clune

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair condition. Significant wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has stamped inside page. Part of the dust jacket front cover has been glued to the front of the book. Significant foxing to foredges and preliminary and end pages. Binding has been reinforced. A readable copy.

Gundabooka, Milparinka, Tibooburra, Innamincka: these were some of the places – places whose names read like a magical formula – that lay along Frank Clune’s path when he set out from Sydney on a 2,000-mile tour of western New South Wales and beyond.

In imagination, the reader may here accompany him, “Roaming Round the Darling”, treading the ways of the pioneers, experiencing the beauty as well as the toughness of the inland.

Frank Clune describes his journey, which he made in company with the late Bartlett Adamson, author and journalist, with characteristic verve and high spirits. In every town and settlement, there were people and things to interest him – old friends and new ones, stories and anecdotes of yesterday and today, odd and fascinating details of history.

New and revised edition of the 1936 classic, published in 1952.