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| | UWA Press - Long Sticky Walk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Emily lives with her family — Mama, Papa, little brother James and Baby Ann — on a small farm in rural New South Wales. |
 | | In 1886, after a terrible flood, and with Papa working as a teamster far from home, the children and Mama are stranded, with scarcely anything left to eat. |
 | | After the floodwaters have subsided, they pack up a swag and the remaining scraps of food and set off on an epic walk to the nearest town — through swarms of sandflies, past animals drowned in the flood, on and on through the sticky, fl mud... |
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