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Philippa Bridges Philippa Bridges i(A79997 works by)
; Died: Ceased: 1930
Gender: Female
Heritage: English
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1 Philippa Bridges : 1923 Philippa Bridges , 2003 extract autobiography (A Walk-About in Australia)
— Appears in: Venus in Transit : Australia's Women Travellers 1788 - 1930 2003; (p. 251-290)
1 y separately published work icon A Walk-About in Australia Philippa Bridges , London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1925 Z1089677 1925 single work autobiography travel 'In 1923, Philippa Bridges, sister to the Governor of South Australia decided to go "overlanding across the Continent and taking a homeward bound ship from Darwin", intending to travel "unhurriedly in the same fashion as the dwellers themselves did." Travelling two thousand miles from Macumba Station to Darwin, of which over 600 miles she travelled by camel, accompanied by an Aboriginal tracker Macumba Jack, and a Lubra Topsy, and wrote A Walk-About in Australia: I had a great wish to see the Never-never, and possibly a flicker of the nomadic instinct may also have urged me, for I know that the thought of the long northward march, which extended practically from the great sic Australian Bight to the Arafura Sea, made a strong appeal.' (Publication summary)
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