The title character discusses German literature with the supposedly cultivated Sandersons while staying at their station in Hunter Valley. The party he leads then moves on to the edge of Darling Downs
The title character discusses German literature with the supposedly cultivated Sandersons while staying at their station in Hunter Valley. The party he leads then moves on to the edge of Darling Downs, where they visit the farm of Boyle, who is the last to see them before they strike into "unknown country." The title character's struggle through a vast, empty landscape parallels that of his soulmate, Laura Trevelyan, who navigates an interior journey inside the household of her step-father, Mr. Bonner, who financed the title figure's expedition, the only survivor of which is the ex- convict Judd. FTP, name this novel describing the title German's attempt to cross overland from Sydney to Darwin, the best-known work of Patrick White.
The title character discusses German literature with the supposedly cultivated Sandersons while staying at their station in Hunter Valley.
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