Tourists are like dragonflies on an autumn afternoon. They hurry from attraction to attraction and monument to monument in search of beauty or history, hovering over gardens, harbours and mountains, footpaths and shopfronts. Sometimes they alight softly in a library, among books rising from wall to wall...
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In Pursuit of Oz: The Blue Between
Across the valley rose the broad, flat silhouette of Mount Solitary. To our right, the Three Sisters revealed themselves from behind—an unfamiliar, almost private perspective far removed from the celebrated view at Echo Point which we would later visit. Beyond them stretched the Narrow Neck Plateau, its sandstone spine disappearing into an unbroken sea of eucalyptus.
In Pursuit of Oz: Conversations with Sydney
Australia's flora is itself a meeting place of distant worlds. Some species are native to this ancient continent; others journeyed here from across the globe and found a new home. Rooted to the same patch of earth, they have watched Sydney reinvent itself.
A Journey, Noticed
Every writer sends a piece into the world with little certainty of where it might travel.
In Pursuit of Oz: Finding Sydney
As though reluctant to let us go, Hyde Park sent us off beneath hesitant drops of rain. By the time we reached College Street the drizzle had thickened into a mild patter. The rain gave us an excuse we scarcely needed.
In Pursuit of Oz: All That Light in Sydney
Nothing about the bustling waterfront around me suggested 1844. The wooden sailing ships that had once relied upon wind, tide and stars were gone. Engines, radio and radar belonged to a future beyond imagination.
One Grain Amongst the Storm 