TWENTY TO THE MILE Timothy Morton Unique to this text is

Unique to this text is its focus on and analysis of the history of middle-years education

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Murray analyses the idea of the Northern Territory as the 'last frontier' in fresh and surprising ways

TWENTY TO THE MILE Timothy Morton Unique to this text isThe greatest engineering problem facing Australia the tyranny of distance had a solution: the electric telegraph, and its champion was the sheep farming state of South Australia. In two years, Charles Heavitree Todd, leading hundreds of men, constructed a telegraph line across the centre of the continent from Port Augusta to Port Darwin. At nearly 3,000 kilometres long and using 36,000 poles at 20 to the mile, it was a mammoth undertaking, but at