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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 13, 1905
Page
16
Wilship and Mac endure horse handling and survival tests as earthquakes and volcanic upheaval doom the valley. They flee the sinking landscape with their rabbi skin bags and stores, witnessing a vast crater swallow the terrain and leaving behind the vanished valley and a hopeful march east toward civilization.
The travelers trek across sunbaked sands halting by day and moving by night for three days. They gaze over endless dunes, feeling castaway like reappearing landmarks, haunted by nature’s convulsion and their own insignificance. The narrative note ends with To be continued.
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