Twenty to the Mile The Overland Telegraph Line by Derek Pugh

Twenty to the Mile The Overland Telegraph Line by Derek PughTwenty to the Mile: Australias Epic Telegraph Line The tyranny of distance was the greatest engineering problem facing Australia. The solution? The electric telegraph, championed by South Australia. Charles Todd, leading hundreds of men, constructed a telegraph line across the continent from Port Augusta to Port Darwin in just two years. At nearly 3,000 kilometres long, with 36,000 poles at 20 to the mile, it was a mammoth undertaking. Finally, in

He may or may not have been attacked by a polar bear

But all too often we forget the best details once the book is finished and put back on the shelf

The stories of those who lived and died on the line—heroic

Meet deaf artist

She has been painting since she was five

This is my story

the art and music worlds exploding and colliding

At once intimate and expansive

and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote

Masterfully conceived and executed

non-didactic book that will be welcomed by young non-binary readers

a nineteen-year-old with an undiagnosed