An Australian Odyssey
by Werner Viertmann

“I was running scared … running to anywhere, and it was the Outback, the Never-Never, the Back of Beyond – call it whatever you will – which fascinated me, and I wanted to find out more about it. It turned out to be a unique experience, and my early years in Australia easily count amongst the most memorable of my life.”  
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Australia is an exotic and distant land, even more so then than it is now. Much has changed. But changes, although sometimes dramatic, have been confined to the fringes of the continent and some tourist destinations elsewhere. The real outback has remained essentially the same and probably always will. 

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