The Crow Eaters: A Journey Through South Australia

✍ Scribed by Ben Stubbs

• Publisher: University of New South Wales Press : NewSouth
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 321 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: South Australia,South Australia.
• ISBN: 1742249035

✦ Synopsis

'Ben Stubbs uncovers the sheer delight and surprise of discovering what’s in your own backyard.’ — Bob Byrne, author of Adelaide Remember When and Australia Remember When

Outsiders think of South Australia as being different, without really knowing much about it. Combining his own travel across the million-square kilometres of the state with an investigation of its history, Ben Stubbs seeks to find out what South Australia is really like.

In the spirit of the best travel writing and literary non-fiction, he lingers in places of quiet beauty and meets some memorable people. Along the way he debunks most of the clichés that plague the state. Travelling to Maralinga, Ceduna, Kangaroo Island, the Flinders Ranges, Coober Pedy, the storied Adelaide suburb of Elizabeth and the once-mighty river that is the Murray, Stubbs brings this diverse state to life. He even addresses head-on the question ‘Is South Australia weird?’

Readers will find it hard to resist the book’s implicit invitation to take a look at places much closer to home, to take the time to drink in dramatic landscapes that are slow, deep and speckled with unforgettable characters.

‘Takes you where the silence is massive and the beauty unexpected.’ — Christopher Kremmer **

About the Author

Ben Stubbs worked as a journalist and travel writer for ten years in Australia and overseas for publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Toronto Star, The Sydney Morning Herald and Rough Guides. He now lives with his family in the Adelaide Hills and is a senior lecturer in journalism and writing at UniSA.

✦ Subjects

South Australia