A Sunburnt Country - Broome to Bendigo by Ross Rolley

Welcome to ‘A Sunburnt Country - Broome to Bendigo – ‘ Australian History and Culture through Poetry, Photography and Commentary The book is saturated with: Edge to edge landscape photos of Outback Australia Piercing lines of true Aussie Bush Poetry that will forever live in your mind Enlightening 'Back Country' quotations and facts that flood the soul with nostalgia, pride and shame. 'The families and followers within that group of souls all share the faith, and contemplate, the worth of earnest goals contrived from living, far away, beneath a cosmic sky so clear and blue it truly makes the wind and water sigh.' Ross Rolley 'The skies are brass and the plains are bare, Death and ruin are everywhere — And all that is left of the last year's flood Is a sickly stream on the grey-black mud; ' Henry Lawson 'On Darling banks, the faithful sit, beneath the starlit skies; to listen for that mournful horn and search through wistful eyes. They feel the teardrops gently fall, nostalgia floods the soul, when glowing steam trains claim the night through searing flames of coal.' Ross Rolley 'And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars, And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended, And at night the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars.' Banjo Paterson 'The years between will test the best when drought is on the land: when summer's hot and it's so dry your spit won't reach the sand. The flying fox will fan their wings; the ground wasps cannot fly; the water’s scarce and men must sit and watch their cattle die.' Ross Rolley