Australian Adventurer

Arra (get going) to Areyonga Australia Aboriginals
"Bathed in an effulgence of light and joy" p. 111
Condy's Crystals p. 85 (dark purple crystalline compound, KMnO4, used as an oxidizing agent and disinfectant and in deodorizers and dyes. potassium permanganate.)
Dearest Dookie p. 75
Escarpments: long steep cliffs p. 88
"Fears were paper tigers." p.50 Fetishistic: having extravagant irrational devotion p. 96
Gibbering p. 96
"Hurrahing in Harvest" by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)

SUMMER ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise
Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?
I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour;
And, éyes, heárt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a
Rapturous love’s greeting of realer, of rounder replies?
And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder
Majestic—as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet!—
These things, these things were here and but the beholder
Wanting; which two when they once meet,
The heart rears wings bold and bolder
And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.

Inveigle: to win over by wiles p.81 Ignominy: public shame or disgrace p. 114 "Inspired lunacy" p. 115
Jewel as in: "my aloneness was a treasure which I guarded like a jewel." p.54 Jackaroo p. 120

 Kestrel: falcon  p. 121 Kunga-berries p. 121

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Mulga: Acacia aneura, a shrub or small tree native to arid outback areas of Australia p.68

Niece headed "down under" for Christmas this year (2013)

"Orgy of possessive bliss" p.53

"Protect that high clear place that could not be shared" p. 54 Petulant p. 95

Quote from the movie, which I finally got to see on Sept 5, 2016: "It seems to me the universe gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these gifts was dogs."

Robyn Davidson: an Australian writer best known for her book Tracks. Her career of travelling and writing about her travels has spanned over 30 years.

Surreptitiously p.56 acquired by Stealth

1,700-mile Trek across the deserts of west Australia using camels.

Utopia, Australia

"Vast untended communal garden" p.121

"WWhat is the substance of the world in which you live?" p. 50

"You've lost a whole road ... a while bloody road." 

Zeleika (Zelly)