A sweltering afternoon: Herberton, Far North Queensland

Abstract

This short prose comprises childhood recollections interspersed with a brief contemporary travel ‘memoir’, juxtaposing past and present narratives in a limited gothic style. It conveys a sense of the sultry ambience of far north Queensland’s tablelands region, inland from Cairns, with a particular focus on Herberton, a town in the ‘dry tropics’, with a mining history.

Keywords

• tropical
• Australia
• memory
• Far North Queensland
• Gothic
• remoteness