Travelling Write

Travelling Write is about books on location – novels, histories, memoirs, etc set in places where P G Henry, travelling light, ventures in a campervan. 

Hundreds of people turned up at the Abbey Road zebra crossing to mark the 50^th anniversary of the August 1969 ‘photo shoot’ for the famous Beatle LP

Driven by that same intent – to be there – thousands (like Henry, travelling write) visit Australian locations hoping to be put in the picture about what had gone before, of those who drove livestock and established sheep and cattle stations while others panned for gold, butchered livestock and set up shop in what became the towns where others (travelling write or wrong) now roam.

Every now and then someone – Thea Astley, Peter Carey, David Malouf or Tim Winton for instance – had gone there and mined the past for an exceptional literary work and if only you’d known about it at the time it would have made the location that much more interesting, the experience of being there so much more significant.

This blog picks up on those novels, short stories, explorers’ journals, newspaper articles,  and so on, that make a given location – Avon Downs, Bowen, Cooktown, Normanton, Warumungu, Elsey, Wyndham, Derby, etc. – spring to life.

Location category posts will feature a region, pastoral station or town, etc to which Henry’s travelled in the campervan; the content (extracted from Around Australia by Book) will come under the Publications rubric. 

Aside from the matter of fact Location and Publication posts, there’ll be those that are opinion pieces (such as September 17th’s ‘Karstens and Margys‘ ).

It’ll take a month of Sundays to complete the hundred-odd author pages and populate each one with relevant material but you’ll get an idea of what’s to come from the pages of the ebook.