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Blogs by Barbara Hartmann King
The Oasis in the Heart of Queensland
3/19/2012 4:50:54 PM
A magical place where grass trees stud the slopes ringed by huge sandstone escarpments; and scattered bottle trees mark the plains.
My series of Outback dramas are set on the Central Highlands where the Carnarvon Gorge is an oasis in the arid heart of Queensland,where grass trees stud the slopes ringed by huge sandstone escarpments; and scattered bottle trees mark the plains. Aboriginal rock art adorns the walls of caves and overhangs. It is one of the most revered spots for the Dreaming and aboriginal art - a secret, mystical place of ancient folklore where the tribes one gathered. The thousands of acres of cattle country surrounding the Carnarvon Gorge area in Queensland, Australia was the perfect setting for the three fictional Cattle Stations in the novels, for the mystical Secret Gorge with the magical Wedge-tailed eagle in the second novel, and the magnificent homestead featured in the third novel. Descriptive detail is a wonderful task in such a wonderful part of the country where the the ancestors stories are encrypted in every available and viable space in this ancient place of Dreaming. I was inspired to begin each chapter of The Tan People, the third novel, with a small poem. Chapter 13. An ancient placefor spirits in an ancient land Many thousandyears a stone-age place of man
Where constant throbbing rhythms of dancing feet Herald ceaseless chanting voices to a pounding beat
Where magic of the Dreaming - is all about believing. Coloured Sands Trilogy by Barbara Hartmann King ... www.colouredsandstrilogy.com.au/
COLOURED SANDS - FIRST NOVEL VALLEY OF THE EAGLE - SECOND NOVEL THE TAN PEOPLE - a journey into truth - THIRD NOVEL
Check out Barbara's novels and her poetry on her website.
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• Man Eating Birds - Thursday, November 01, 2012
• THE SIGN POST - Tuesday, July 24, 2012
• LOVE IS - Wednesday, June 13, 2012
• Poems from The Tan People - - Tuesday, May 22, 2012
• The first novel - a biography of Emily - Wednesday, May 02, 2012
• Taipans, pig shooters and man eating birds - Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Laugh Kookaburra Laugh - Tuesday, April 10, 2012
• Characters for Country Dramas - Sunday, April 01, 2012
• The Oasis in the Heart of Queensland - Monday, March 19, 2012
• Coloured Sands Dreaming Legend - Wednesday, March 07, 2012
• A Hundred Million Years Ago - Saturday, February 18, 2012
• Where couples met and Fell in Love - Monday, February 13, 2012
• The Jet-Propelled Emus - Wednesday, February 08, 2012
• Not a Castle anywhere - only Grand old Homesteads - Thursday, February 02, 2012
• Invitations - requesting your pleasure - Sunday, January 29, 2012
• Love Is - Thursday, January 26, 2012
• Inspiration form Multicoloured Sand Dunes - Wednesday, January 25, 2012
• The first coat of paint in 100 years - Monday, November 28, 2011
• Happy Jacks and Sand Goannas - Wednesday, November 23, 2011
• The old Homestead-Digging into the past for themes - Tuesday, November 22, 2011
• Coloured Sands Trilogy - Monday, November 21, 2011
• Life at Wyuna where the writing began - Friday, November 18, 2011
• A plague of army worm months were the final straw - Thursday, November 17, 2011
• Life is about change-Grandfather married again - Wednesday, November 16, 2011
• Raising money for the community in the country - Tuesday, November 15, 2011
• Charity Work in Country Towns -the Lions Club - Monday, November 14, 2011
• Knowledge gleaned from living in the bush for my outback novels. - Sunday, November 13, 2011
• Nature's Cruel Outbursts - Saturday, November 12, 2011
• The Passion and my imagination - Wednesday, November 09, 2011
• The Passion - the Personal relationship with the land - Tuesday, November 08, 2011
• The Vet said: Your horse will get up Or he will lie there and die - Monday, November 07, 2011
• Once an Inland Sea - more - Sunday, November 06, 2011
• Once an inland Sea - no other explanation - Saturday, November 05, 2011
• Life in the Bush - Fodder for Country Dramas - Friday, November 04, 2011
• Medical Emergencies in the Bush - Thursday, November 03, 2011
• Just like Mary the Pioneer Woman - Wednesday, November 02, 2011
• Identifying with my character - The Pioneering Woman Mary - Tuesday, November 01, 2011
• Inspiration for Characters of early settlement - Ancestors - Monday, October 31, 2011
• Coloured Sands Trilogy - Sunday, October 30, 2011
• Coloured Sands Trilogy - Saturday, October 29, 2011
• Coloured Sands Trilogy - Friday, October 28, 2011
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