An Adventurous Honeymoon: The First Motor Honeymoon Around Australia
Author:   Muriel Dorney
Publisher:   ETT Imprint
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9781923205857


Pages:   172
Publication Date:   01 July 2025
Format:   Paperback
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An Adventurous Honeymoon: The First Motor Honeymoon Around Australia


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Newly weds, Jack and Muriel Dorney buy a new 1926 Whippet and decide to travel north from Brisbane and go around Australia, on a honeymoon tour. Carrying guns in case of night marauders, this an early look at Queensland and the Territory suffering drought, and the difficulties of getting almost anything in inland Australia. Out of print for over 90 years.

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Author:   Muriel Dorney
Publisher:   ETT Imprint
Imprint:   ETT Imprint
ISBN:  

9781923205857


ISBN 10:   1923205854
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   01 July 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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Muriel Dorney was born in Rockhampton in 1897, and became a primary school teacher before her marriage to John Dorney in 1926. They embarked upon a honeymoon tour of Australia covering 6000 miles in the first ever Overland Whippet to arrive in Australia. In 1933 they opened their own garage, a Ford agency, in Chinchilla, which they operated for 27 years.

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