Journey to Horseshoe Bend by TGH Strehlow

Journey to Horseshoe Bend by TGH StrehlowJourney to Horseshoe Bend was first published in 1969 and has been out of print for almost forty years. An Australian literary classic, it was written by TGH (Ted) Strehlow, author of the monumental Songs of Central Australia. It describes the final days of his father, Pastor Carl Strehlow, head of the Lutheran mission at Hermannsburg, as they travel, with Aboriginal companions, in extreme heat, along the dry riverbed of the Finke River, to the

forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point

What happens when buried stories are dragged into the light

Before becoming a bestselling author

a practical guide

does it matter that she's a kangaroo

Renee McBryde's narrative is both a gripping account of her life and a thoughtful examination of what it means to be a 'good' mother amidst the echoes of a troubled past

the Yanyuwa feel it so deeply

long mountain climbs in low gear

but all too familiar

But she was wrong

whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harbouring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorgeous

through country where explorer Charles Sturt found the heat so intense that the ink on his pen dried before he could put it to paper