ROUNDABOUT
ROAMING AROUND AUSTRALIA, By Frank Clune. Distributed by Georgian House for The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, OAMING Around Australia is an attempt to point out, primarily, to South Australians, that Australia is more than the Southern States. In a general way it succeeds. Few people who read it will continue to think of Australia in terms of Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra, but their knowledge of the rest is likely to be vague and valueless. Not that there is too little detail, there is far too much-a miscellany of historical, geographical, and economic data which is easy to read but hard to remember. All of it is interesting but not all is important. Personal histories of national figures, and of small town celebrities, are treated with democratic impartiality and the same amount of detail; vital statistics and forgotten murders are crammed into the same chapter. This is good from the human intcrest angle, but tends to make the book incoherent as a source of information. The book is illustrated with photographs, but they are small and unimaginative, and placed too far from their context. It is hard to believe that Clune with his eye for the picturesque selected them himself.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 32
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199ROUNDABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 32
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