Ayers Rock
p. 94 · Read in the full issue
In Colour
people over 12 years old who -T like to look rather than to read.
Journey to the Red Rock might strike the right note. Narrative and pictures —a large proportion of them in full colour—are by Bruce and June MacPherson.
The red rock is Ayers Rock in Central Australia and it is seen through the eyes of Gail, the teenage daughter of the MacPhersons. The Rock has been photographed and written about in all its -moods but this book is able to capture at least one new angle—the Rock during and after two inches of rain, something that happens only every half dozen years or so.
There is also a great deal about it in sunny periods and a lot about life in The Centre as well.
For the audience that it seems designed to serve, the story is in unnecessarily frugal and simple style —nonetheless it is still an attractively produced book.
(Journey To The Red Rock..
Collins. 26/-.)