Spinifex and Sand (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515249382)

The following pages profess to be no more than a faithful narrative of five years spent on the goldfields and in the far interior of Western Australia. Any one looking for stirring adventures, hairbreadth escapes from wild animals and men, will be disappointed. In the Australian Bush the traveller has only Nature to war against-over him hangs always the chance of death from thirst, and sometimes from the attacks of hostile aboriginals; he has no spice of adventure, no record heads of rare game, no exciting escapades with dangerous beasts, to spur him on; no beautiful scenery, broad lakes, or winding rivers to make life pleasant for him. The unbroken monotony of an arid, uninteresting country has to be faced. Nature everywhere demands his toil. Unless he has within him impulses that give him courage to go on, he will soon return; for he will find nothing in his surroundings to act as an incentive to tempt him further.

Author: David Wynford Carnegie
ISBN-10: 1515249387
ISBN-13: 9781515249382
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/27/2015
Pages: 114
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.24d