AUSTRALIAN PIONEERS

Updated 25 January 2010

Horse and rider with bent heads, in silhouette against a pink-yellow glow in the distance; dark clouds are a backdrop to a full, white moon.

“Ah ! who has ever journeyed on a glorious summer night
Through the weird Australian bush-land without feeling of delight?“
— Arthur Patchett Martin.

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