Revisiting the Dark Man

A journey into Queensland’s shadow country

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  • Published 20190806
  • ISBN: 9781925773798
  • Extent: 264pp
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ONE RECENT SATURDAY morning, I once again drove my children to the street in Brisbane’s west where I grew up as a boy.

They had been on this journey too many times to remember: the pleasant drive through The Gap in the Taylor Range, past the old jam factory and the golf course, left into Payne Road and then sharp left into the dogleg that is Bernarra Street.

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