Abstract
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.
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The University of Melbourne, Australia. This short prose comprises childhood recollections interspersed with a brief contemporary travel ‘memoir’, juxtaposing past and present narratives in a limited gothic style
The timber slats that shaded its upper floor verandah rooms in my memories are clearly visible in this image: https://www.gdaypubs.com.au/QLD/herberton/50727/royal-hotel.html retrieved March 2019
Summary
This short prose comprises childhood recollections interspersed with a brief contemporary travel ‘memoir’, juxtaposing past and present narratives in a limited gothic style. Descending a short hill into Herberton, I expected an old-looking town, a shamble of brown and greying buildings, with a sense of poverty and distance recalled from childhood visits to tin-fossicker relatives.
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