A sweltering afternoon: Herberton, Far North Queensland

A sweltering afternoon: Herberton, Far North Queensland

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This short prose comprises childhood recollections interspersed with a brief contemporary travel ‘memoir’, juxtaposing past and present narratives in a limited gothic style. It conveys a sense of the sultry ambience of far north Queensland’s tablelands region, inland from Cairns, with a particular...

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Main Author: Tass Holmes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2019-10-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
Subjects:
tropical
Australia
memory
Far North Queensland
Gothic
remoteness
Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3709
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spelling doaj-b5bd7f085d8847578873e49f1c0aeb832021-09-16T01:43:37ZengJames Cook UniversityeTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics1448-29402019-10-01182A sweltering afternoon: Herberton, Far North QueenslandTass Holmes0University of Melbourne This short prose comprises childhood recollections interspersed with a brief contemporary travel ‘memoir’, juxtaposing past and present narratives in a limited gothic style. It conveys a sense of the sultry ambience of far north Queensland’s tablelands region, inland from Cairns, with a particular focus on Herberton, a town in the ‘dry tropics’, with a mining history. https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3709tropicalAustraliamemoryFar North QueenslandGothicremoteness
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A sweltering afternoon: Herberton, Far North Queensland
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
tropical
Australia
memory
Far North Queensland
Gothic
remoteness
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title A sweltering afternoon: Herberton, Far North Queensland
title_short A sweltering afternoon: Herberton, Far North Queensland
title_full A sweltering afternoon: Herberton, Far North Queensland
title_fullStr A sweltering afternoon: Herberton, Far North Queensland
title_full_unstemmed A sweltering afternoon: Herberton, Far North Queensland
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publisher James Cook University
series eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
issn 1448-2940
publishDate 2019-10-01
description This short prose comprises childhood recollections interspersed with a brief contemporary travel ‘memoir’, juxtaposing past and present narratives in a limited gothic style. It conveys a sense of the sultry ambience of far north Queensland’s tablelands region, inland from Cairns, with a particular focus on Herberton, a town in the ‘dry tropics’, with a mining history.
topic tropical
Australia
memory
Far North Queensland
Gothic
remoteness
url https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3709
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