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...Sydney: The Apartment Service, tel: (61-2) 9953 7288, offers locations from Sydney's famous beaches to the city center. A one-bedroom flat in Leichhardt, the cool, café-packed Italian quarter, begins at $450 a week...
Mysterious Initial. Voss, White's fictional explorer, is clearly drawn from the character of the German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, an eccentric, bungling visionary who disappeared with his party in the interior of Australia in 1848. Later, the initial "L" was found carved on many trees, and expeditions vainly sought to trace down tales of a Wild White Man thought to be a survivor of Leichhardt's venture. Seizing on this episode and the surrounding legends, Author White sends Voss and his companions on a rambling journey into disaster. The novel's finely told climax adds...
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