Author(s): Doris Blackwell; Douglas Lockwood

SECONDHAND BOOKS | AUSTRALIANA

The town that is Alice was a telegraph station when Doris Bradshaw Blackwell went there as a young girl in 1899...In this book with the collaboration of Territory author Douglas Lockwood, she has recapture the atmosphere of those early days - only thirty years after the construction of the O.T. line and forty years after John McDouall Stuart first crossed the continent from south to north. The personal story of life at The Alice at the turn of the century is not only a book of great historical interest, it reflects a deep love for the country and its people.

1997. Reprint. A very good copy.