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"The Singing Line: the Story of the Man Who Strung the Telegraph Across Australia, And the Woman Who Gave Her Name To Alice Springs"
Vintage 2000 Paperback, 304pp. "In 1855 an impoverished young English scientist went to chance his luck in Australia - as Government Astronomer and superintendent of Telegraphs for the small colony of South Australia. With him went his young wife Alice - after whom Alice Springs would be named. Charles Todd was following a dream - the near impossible task of stringing a telegraph wire across the wilderness of the Australian outback. In 1997, Charles Todd's great-great-great-granddaughter, Alice, followed in his footsteps. Her plan was to track the telegraph - and her ancestors - from Adelaide over the thousands of miles of desert, outback, swamp and mountain that Charles Todd had crossed in the 1860s with his four hundred men. ", (ISBN: 9780099272823). Good.
Book HavenProfessional sellerBook number: 1280527
NZD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 10.73 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1687]
Catalogue: General
Keywords: "Australian, History"9780099272823 9780099272823
"The Singing Line: the Story of the Man Who Strung the Telegraph Across Australia, And the Woman Who Gave Her Name To Alice Springs"
Vintage 2000 Paperback, 304pp. "In 1855 an impoverished young English scientist went to chance his luck in Australia - as Government Astronomer and superintendent of Telegraphs for the small colony of South Australia. With him went his young wife Alice - after whom Alice Springs would be named. Charles Todd was following a dream - the near impossible task of stringing a telegraph wire across the wilderness of the Australian outback. In 1997, Charles Todd's great-great-great-granddaughter, Alice, followed in his footsteps. Her plan was to track the telegraph - and her ancestors - from Adelaide over the thousands of miles of desert, outback, swamp and mountain that Charles Todd had crossed in the 1860s with his four hundred men. ", (ISBN: 9780099272823). Good.
Book HavenProfessional sellerBook number: 1300311
NZD 15.50 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 9.5 | £UK 7.5 | JP¥ 1494]
Catalogue: General
Keywords: "Australian, Non-Fiction"9780099272823 9780099272823
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