Daughter of the Territory

During that first wet when vegetables were a memory from the past, we resorted to cooking and eating pigweed—not the most delicious of vegetables. Later we made do with leaves of the sweet potato vine and even the new shoots of pumpkin vines. Daughter of the Territory is the amazing true story of Jacqueline Hammar, who spent most of her adult life in the remotest reaches of Australia's Northern Territory. In 1919, Jacqueline's father rode into the Territory on the back of a camel to take up...