The Dig Tree: The Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Fontier | 
This scorched landscape stretches all the way to Lake Eyre, a salt lake covering around 5800 square kilometers with an annual rainfall of less than 125 millimeters. Surrounded by the Tirari Desert, the area has remained largely immune to the taming of influence of fences, roads and homesteads. Travellers through the ages have found it an unsettling environment. The explorer Cecil Madigan wrote in 1940: (see above)
"Some believed the Australian interior would reveal nothing more than a vast desert, others fantasised about mountain ranges, fertile plains, lost civilisations and wild animals unknown to science. A few believed the semi-submersible wagon might be needed to sail across an inland sea. The truth was - nobody knew."
Right as I finally come to the close of Burke & Wills by Peter Fitzsimons, a copy of The Dig Tree comes in on reserve at the library for me!
A VERY busy weekend coming up for me with work, but on Monday I'll be snuggled up in bed ready to dig into The Dig Tree, from Sarah Murgatroyd's perspective, written 16 yrs previously to Fitzsimons. (Looks like the tagged book needs the authors name corrected).
So excited! I may just begin it right now 😁
