In a Sunburned Country

by Bill Bryson

A thousand miles from anywhere, the spot was the very ‘climax of desolation’, as Stuart’s fellow explorer Ernest Giles once nicely put it, and Stuart and his men went through hell to get there.

the outback is an odd and unfathomable place.

But that is of course the thing about Australia – that there is such a lot to find in it, but such a lot of it to find it in.