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An account of an early ambitious Australian road trip undertaken by a couple (Frank and Win Wright) from Melbourne to Darwin and back in 1929. In the Northern Territory they picked up a third person (Penryn Goldman) after his car had broken down doing a similar journey. Goldman had a movie camera and filmed his journey both when on his own and then later once he had hitched with the Wrights. The book features extensives diary entries from both the Wrights and Goldman and is an invaluable contextual and informative record of this road trip.