Dune is a Four-letter Word
Desert Crossings and Dusty Memories
$33.37
- Paperback
266 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2015
Summary
‘Dune is a four-letter word’, said Griselda Sprigg on the first day of her family’s attempt to make the first motorised crossing of the forbidding Simpson Desert. ‘And so is bloody spinifex.’
Dune is a Four-letter Word tells the story of Griselda and Reg Sprigg’s pioneering desert adventures - not only in the Simpson Desert but all over the vast Australian outback. Griselda’s story is also the story of Arkaroola Sanctuary, how she, with her husband, Reg, turned a drought-stri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781862545403 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1862545405 |
| Author: | Griselda Sprigg, Rod Maclean |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 266 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 372g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 149mm x 226mm |
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Griselda Sprigg
The late Griselda Sprigg was the first white woman to cross the Simpson Desert.
The late Rod Maclean was an author, journalist and television reporter. Rod wrote the Aussie novel Eric and Ian Get a Life and a biography of Griselda Sprigg, an outback pioneer, Dune Is a Four-letter Word. He recorded the last year of his life in the memoir Wallaby.
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