henrigilbert

French journalist Henri Gilbert, Barcaldine, April 1900

from State Library of Queensland

• theforster4 said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Journalists on the Job, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Simon Miller said:

  The story of Henri Gilbert and the wife he acquired in Roma is here in the JOL Blog blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2016/07/26/the-french-pedestrian...

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  "In the late nineteenth century, French journalist Henri Gilbert set out to walk around the world. When Gilbert came to Australia he crossed the continent from Perth to Brisbane. He traveled on foot across the Nullarbor Plain, an arduous leg of the journey, taking some five and a half months. Gilbert kept a diary of the crossing in his meticulously tidy hand. That 173-page diary is a treasure that, by chance, was uncovered by Colin Dyer when he was browsing in the John Oxley Library in Brisbane." "The diary includes photographs of Gilbert himself and the people he met on his way, as well as cuttings about his journey from the local newspapers of the time. At each stop, the diary is authenticated by a signed attestation from the station master, the hotel owner, the postmaster, or the local mayor."--BOOK JACKET. Source: A Frenchman's walk across the Nullarbor: Henri Gilbert's diary, Perth to Brisbane 1897-1899 / translated and edited by Colin Dyer