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...undershirt, unguarded in its backyard after work, quarreling amid rusting engine blocks, scrawny chickens and mail- order guitars. But a train trip is more. It provides a window on majestic nature that is often inaccessible by other means. That's not Busch Gardens out there in the Alaskan outback, nor are you riding past the robotic ape at a theme park. Those are real moose in rut careening toward the train, real bears, mountains and mud slides on the other side of the window. Elsewhere, American rails wander beside breathtaking canyons, mountain ranges and waterfalls. So, wherever you're headed...
...Gogh's Irises, 1889, known to the trade as the Curse of the Outback, has found its permanent home in the Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., which bought it for an undisclosed sum last week. Acquired at auction in November 1987 for $53.9 million by the Australian conglomerator and promoter Alan Bond, Irises was the most expensive work of art ever sold. Its price created an artificial euphoria that bulled the world art market and helped save it from the October ( '87 Wall Street crash. The name of the underbidder was never revealed, raising suggestions -- indignantly denied by the auctioneers...
...through the text. No matter. This book is far more than a standard piece of genealogical sleuthing. Half its fascination lies in chapters that describe milieus rather than biographical detail. Frontier living in Tasmania when Reg was a boy, the realities of pickup vaudeville in the outback, the grim privations of war in Malta when he served there, the ins and outs of selling jewelry or newspaper ads or working military codes -- whatever the father encountered, the daughter has made...
...commission's wide-ranging investigation has helped to open the country's eyes to the plight of Aborigines. Ever since the First Fleet arrived from England in 1788 carrying British convicts, the Aborigines have been retreating from the land they held for 40,000 years -- to the outback and more recently to the seedy fringes of urban society...
OSCAR AND LUCINDA by Peter Carey. Two decidedly odd young Victorians, both addicted to gambling, meet by accident and hatch an improbable plan: to build a glass cathedral and put it in the Australian outback...