Penelope Goes West
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
978-1-86508-066-6 (ISBN)
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Tim Bowden loves travelling and camping and has a great interest in Australian history. So, when he decided to take off to Western Australia with his wife Ros and their newly acquired camping trailer and four-wheel-drive (named Penelope as to travel in her was to be truly to the Manor Born), it was only natural that their journey would be just as much about history as the travails and joys of the gypsy life. Crossing the Nullarbor Plain on roughly the same track taken by the courageous young explorer Edward John Eyre, and following the coast in the wake of the admirable Matthew Flinders, Tim kept a diary of his and Ros's two-month journey. The result is an engrossing travel tale that takes you from Sydney to the far southwest of Western Australia and back. Told with Tim Bowden's wry humour and love of a good yarn, Penelope Goes West brings vividly to life the dramatic stories of pioneer explorers, tales of bush life today and the many ups (and occasional down) of life on the road.
Tim Bowden is a Sydney broadcaster, radio and television documentary maker, oral historian and author. He hosted the ABC-TV listener and viewer reaction program `Backchat' (1986 - 1994). In 1969 he was the first executive producer of the ABC radio current affairs program PM, before becoming a producer with the ground-breaking television current affairs program `This Day Tonight' in the early 1970s. For the last 10 years, Tim Bowden has been actively broadcasting, writing and researching Australian activities in Antarctica. He will write and narrate the ANARE Jubilee documentary The Silence Calling planned for 1999.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPenelope and the ManorExplorers and Prehistoric AntsWe Join the Grey NomadsWhen Can I Buy Another Tomato?Cocktails at SixLucky Bay, Wind Farms and Space JunkA Fiery ChristmasRolls-Royce Chardonnay at a BMW PriceWhale Oil and Echoes of AntarcticaThe Last Bush CampBibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.1999 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Sydney |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 215 mm |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien |
| ISBN-10 | 1-86508-066-7 / 1865080667 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-86508-066-6 / 9781865080666 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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