Little Wheels (eBook)

Across Australia in a Baby Austin

Hector MacQuarrie (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
172 Seiten
ETT Imprint (Verlag)
9781923205604 (ISBN)

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Little Wheels is a humorous account of a road trip from Sydney to Cape York and Thursday Island by Hector MacQuarrie and Richard Mathews, his mechanic mate, in 1927, over "e;roads"e; that had never been motored before. In those days, all roads stopped at Cooktown, so the 960k north to Cape York was a first by any motorist - encountering quicksand, turkey-brush, melon-holes, wide creeks, little water - lonely telegraphists, outpost traders, Aboriginals and life in remote wild places. By the author of Round the World in a Baby Austin. Hector MacQuarrie tells an interesting story of triumph over difficulties. It is the history of a trip made by the author and a friend from Sydney to Cape York, a car of the "e;baby pattern being used. The daring motorists did things that were thought to be impossible, stuck to their self-imposed task with pertinacity, and so succeeded. The book is written in a racy style, and the interest never flags as the reader travels in spirit with the two determined New Zealanders and their "e;baby"e;. - The Queenslander, January 1930

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• ISBN-13: 9781923205604 / 9781923205604