The adventures of Henry Jones includes these taped interviews with Straughan, plus a whole lot of other stuff about someone else’s childhood. We leave out all the bits about boarding school, which are described elsewhere. Same thing for almost everything that is described in the book ‘Overlanders’; there is no need to duplicate that here.
Henry Wilson Jones went to Europe by ship in May 1966. His ship went through the Suez Canal, and you could get off at Port Said in the early morning and go for a day trip to Cairo to see the pyramids. Ride on the camel’s back and visit the Cairo museum. All this for about £13 sterling, which was a lot in 1966. Catching a bus from Cairo in the late afternoon they were just in time to join the ship at the other end of the canal by midnight. He did it, just to have done it once. But he wouldn’t bother doing it again.
While Henry Jones is living in Europe, during the sixties and seventies, Jack Straughan is living in Australia. Then come the eighties, which I will not describe here either. We reach the nineties. Their paths cross for the first time. Straughan goes broke and retires to the country after doing a trip around Australia in July/August of 1992. Jones works on writing the book of memoirs after writing an article on Jack Straughan in late 91.
Now at some time during the nineties, Jack Straughan goes down to settle in Tasmania, or else it was early in 2000. He picks up on a series of ecological subjects, including genetically modified organisms. Begins a world-wide correspondence with scientific experts, mostly over the Internet. Obviously he has forgotten completely about Moondyne Joe.
Henry Wilson Jones went to Europe by ship in May 1966. His ship went through the Suez Canal, and you could get off at Port Said in the early morning and go for a day trip to Cairo to see the pyramids. Ride on the camel’s back and visit the Cairo museum. All this for about £13 sterling, which was a lot in 1966. Catching a bus from Cairo in the late afternoon they were just in time to join the ship at the other end of the canal by midnight. He did it, just to have done it once. But he wouldn’t bother doing it again.
While Henry Jones is living in Europe, during the sixties and seventies, Jack Straughan is living in Australia. Then come the eighties, which I will not describe here either. We reach the nineties. Their paths cross for the first time. Straughan goes broke and retires to the country after doing a trip around Australia in July/August of 1992. Jones works on writing the book of memoirs after writing an article on Jack Straughan in late 91.
Now at some time during the nineties, Jack Straughan goes down to settle in Tasmania, or else it was early in 2000. He picks up on a series of ecological subjects, including genetically modified organisms. Begins a world-wide correspondence with scientific experts, mostly over the Internet. Obviously he has forgotten completely about Moondyne Joe.
