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Issue Details: First known date: 1934... 1934 The Flying Doctor
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form y separately published work icon The Flying Doctor Miles Mander , J. O. C. Orton , ( dir. Miles Mander ) 1936 Australia : National Productions , 1936 Z1389823 1936 single work film/TV Although titled The Flying Doctor, the storyline in fact focuses more on the character of outback adventurer Sandy. On his wedding night Sandy deserts his bride, Jenny, and heads to Sydney where he becomes a painter on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
He later befriends a doctor, John Vaughan, who is in love with a married woman. Unable to continue living with the turmoil he finds himself in, Vaughan accepts a post as flying doctor in the bush.
Sandy, meanwhile, has spent some time in gaol after a brawl at a cricket match. After being released, he heads back to the outback, and soon afterwards strikes a rich vein of gold. His highlife comes to an end, however, when he is shot in a bar-room fight and loses his sight.
Things get worse when he finds out that Vaughan has married Jenny. When Sandy realises that Jenny truly loves the doctor and that he has made a mess of his life, he decides to commit suicide and leave his fortune to the Flying Doctor Service.

Notes

  • "In the second edition of this novel, which has been called for within six weeks of publication, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith contributes a foreword, in which he emphasises the importance of aviation to Australia, and congratulates the author on the admirable way in which he blends truth and fiction." Cover note, All About Books, 6 (9), 13 September, 1934.
  • Libraries Australia lists a special wartime edition, [194-?], 179p. with no holdings and hence not traced.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: N.S.W. Bookstall Company , 1934 .
      Extent: viii, 288p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: To Our Empire Builders. Those heroic men and women of the great outback who by their self-sacrifice and indomitable courage are blazing the trail for the children of to-morrow.
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