Speeding along the outback highway, I looked at the red earth on either side. I never get tired of remote wide-open spaces.
I’d lived in Australia on and off for 20 years, after moving as a baby with my parents from the Netherlands to Geelong, Vic.
In stints back in the Netherlands, I read countless books about Australian pioneering history in the 1920s and 30s.
And being an author, I used what I’d learned in my books.
Writing in 2016, I mentioned one of the first