Wings of the Kite-Hawk: A journey into the heart of Australia
Picador, $30 pb, 327 pp
Sounding-Boards of the Heart
by Michael McGirr •
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.
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