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Sounding-Boards of the Heart

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April 2003, no. 250

Wings of the Kite-Hawk: A journey into the heart of Australia by Nicolas Rothwell

Picador, $30 pb, 327 pp

Sounding-Boards of the Heart

by
April 2003, no. 250

Most of us were taught at school to understand the difference between discovery and invention. Both words imply finding, but discovery meant finding something that already existed ‘out there’ in the concrete world; inventions were found in the imagination. Explorers discovered; scientists invented.

Michael McGirr reviews 'Wings of the Kite-Hawk: A journey into the heart of Australia'

Wings of the Kite-Hawk: A journey into the heart of Australia

by Nicolas Rothwell

Picador, $30 pb, 327 pp

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