We're all missing our travels because of the pandemic but what we can do now is share our travel stories. Eisha tells Reagan about how the ancient aborigines in Australia use songlines for their walkabouts, how the first white settlers used these to map minerals. In their quest for gold, the Europeans brought with them horses and other domestic animals to these newly-discovered lands and with them, came germs that destroyed the native peoples. Eisha finds linkages between ancient civilizations across the globe, though they developed independent to each other, in the form of their dwellings, tools, implements, community structures and even dreams.
Suggested reading: Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines
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Cover art: Uluru and Kata Tjuta
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