A Life for Animals (front matter)
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Townend, ChristineAbstract
I wondered what we were doing here on this narrow bitumen highway, with bare stretches of field and scattered huts, in the middle of Uttar Pradesh, in 1993, without a proper road map, with no contact with anyone in the outside world, contained within the small capsule of our Indian-made Maruti Gypsy jeep, with an Australian blue heeler lying panting on the back seat ‒ most probably the first blue heeler ever to drive from west to east across the great Gangetic Plain.I wondered what we were doing here on this narrow bitumen highway, with bare stretches of field and scattered huts, in the middle of Uttar Pradesh, in 1993, without a proper road map, with no contact with anyone in the outside world, contained within the small capsule of our Indian-made Maruti Gypsy jeep, with an Australian blue heeler lying panting on the back seat ‒ most probably the first blue heeler ever to drive from west to east across the great Gangetic Plain.
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Date
2017-01-01Publisher
Sydney University PressCitation
Townend, Christine (2017). A Life for Animals. Sydney: Sydney University PressShare