The Ghan: The Story of the Alice Springs Railway by Basil Fuller

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. General edgewear.

In 1877, work started on a 1,800-mile railway to connect Australia's northern and southern coasts. With only horses and camels to help, the hard-worked navvies., the track pushed forward slowly from Port Augusta to Government Gums, Hergott Springs, Stangways Creek and Oodnadatta. It paused at Oodnadatta for nearly forty years, then moved on to Rumbalara and finally in 1929, to Alice Springs.

Basil Fuller made the journey from Port Augusta to the Alice, speaking with many of the old-timers who remember the epic days of the line's construction.