Alice and Me: An Alice Springs Experience

Having survived over seventy years of life in this land, I have at various times stood with my back to Australia - at Seaford, Scarborough, Townsville and Darwin - and in each place I have felt the bulk of the country behind me like the hand of a protective parent: huge, ancient, wild and inhospitable. I have felt the sharp coldness of the waves in southern climes, the affectionate warmth in sub-tropical waters as brilliant sunsets perished over western oceans, the almost foreign loneliness...