Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 In the Tracks of the Camelmen : Outback Australia's Most Exotic Pioneers
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    • North Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1987 .
      Extent: xii, 196 p.,25 cmp.
      Description: [24] p. of plates : illus., maps, ports.
      Reprinted: 2005

Works about this Work

Islam in the Outback Ben Stubbs , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 61 2018; (p. 257-265)

'On a dusty corner just before the Oodnadatta Track begins to unfurl across the centre of Australia, there is an unassuming mud-walled building on the edge of Marree, a town with a population of one hundred and fifty. Grey nomads pull up outside the general store across the road in their four-wheel drives to stock up on beer coolers and meat pies, and they barely notice the humble thatch-roofed structure. Behind them, young families clamber over the platform of the old Ghan railway, paying no attention to the building. The only identifying mark next to the dirt walls and old wooden beams is a small notice stuck on a stick in the ground, which looks like it is stencilled on in pen. It proclaims that this spot is ‘Dedicated to the memory of the pioneering Muslim cameleers and families of Hergott Springs (Marree)’. It is also the remains of the first mosque in Australia.' (Introduction)

Remembering Muslim Histories of Australia Regina Ganter , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , May no. 89 2012; (p. 48-62)
Remembering Muslim Histories of Australia Regina Ganter , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , May no. 89 2012; (p. 48-62)
Islam in the Outback Ben Stubbs , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 61 2018; (p. 257-265)

'On a dusty corner just before the Oodnadatta Track begins to unfurl across the centre of Australia, there is an unassuming mud-walled building on the edge of Marree, a town with a population of one hundred and fifty. Grey nomads pull up outside the general store across the road in their four-wheel drives to stock up on beer coolers and meat pies, and they barely notice the humble thatch-roofed structure. Behind them, young families clamber over the platform of the old Ghan railway, paying no attention to the building. The only identifying mark next to the dirt walls and old wooden beams is a small notice stuck on a stick in the ground, which looks like it is stencilled on in pen. It proclaims that this spot is ‘Dedicated to the memory of the pioneering Muslim cameleers and families of Hergott Springs (Marree)’. It is also the remains of the first mosque in Australia.' (Introduction)

Last amended 5 Mar 2007 10:44:06
Subjects:
  • Australian Outback, Central Australia,
  • South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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    Australia,
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