I Saw A Strange Land
Text Classics
$17.79
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2015
Summary
While living in Central Australia Arthur Groom fell under the spell of our harsh and fascinating country, captivated by its limitless distances and unbelievable colour. Hermannsburg, the home of artist Albert Namatjira and of other well-known painters, became Groom’s headquarters, and from there he made numerous expeditions into wilder and more inaccessible regions.
Travelling on foot with an Indigenous guide and a team of camels, Groom explored the Macdonnell and Krichauff ranges, th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922182791 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1922182796 |
| Author: | Arthur Groom, Robyn Davidson |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 139mm x 198mm x 149mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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About The Author
Arthur Groom
Artur Groom was born in Caulfield, Melbourne, in 1904. His father, Arthur Champion Groom, was the member for Flinders in Australia’s first federal parliament. The family moved to Queensland in 1911.
Groom worked as a jackeroo at Lake Nash station, near the Northern Territory border, before moving to Brisbane in 1926 to work for the Sunday Mail. His first book, A Merry Christmas, was published in London in 1930.
Groom was an avid walker and outdoor photographer. In May 1930 he founded the National Parks Association of Queensland and later became manager and jack-of-all-trades at Binna Burra guesthouse, on the edge of Lamington Park in south-east Queensland. During World War II Groom lectured Australian and American troops on jungle survival techniques.
He continued to write, but moved away from fiction: subsequent books focused on environmental protection, the conservation of Australia’s great natural wilderness and tourism.
Groom died in Melbourne in 1953, three years after the publication of I Saw a Strange Land.
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