{"product_id":"2940016235011","title":"The Secret of Emu Plain \u0026 The Face of the Abbot","description":"IT so happened that business called me to Queensland in the late October\u003cbr\u003eof 1894, and hearing that my old friend, Rosamund Dale, was about to be\u003cbr\u003emarried, I determined to present myself at Jim Macdonald's station on the\u003cbr\u003eBarcoo District in December, in order to be present at the ceremony. I\u003cbr\u003ehad seen a good deal of Rosamund when she was a child, and it was an old\u003cbr\u003epromise of mine that, if possible, I was to be one of the guests at her\u003cbr\u003ewedding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI arrived at Macdonald's a week before Christmas, and when a hot wind, or\u003cbr\u003esirocco, was blowing in from the west. I little thought, as I did so,\u003cbr\u003ethat the strangest, and most terrible adventure of my life was about to\u003cbr\u003etake place in the Queensland bush. But so it was, and this is the story\u003cbr\u003ejust as it happened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI had been delayed on my journey, and on the evening of my arrival the\u003cbr\u003ewedding was to take place. Macdonald's property was about seven hundred\u003cbr\u003eand fifty square miles in extent, and was in the heart of the hills,\u003cbr\u003ewhich are the fountain-head of the countless creeks that run south, and\u003cbr\u003ejoin to form the Warrego, and eventually the Great Darling River, some\u003cbr\u003efour hundred miles away. It was good grazing country on the whole, but\u003cbr\u003econtained one enormous tract of arid sand, some forty square miles in\u003cbr\u003eextent, which went by the name of Emu Plain. Skirting one corner of this\u003cbr\u003eplain ran the coach road from Blackall to Charleville, along which ran\u003cbr\u003eCobb \u0026amp; Co.'s coach once a fortnight. Almost in the middle of the plain\u003cbr\u003estood in solitary grandeur the great Emu Rock, a grotesque, bare,\u003cbr\u003eperpendicular crag of limestone, rising a sheer three hundred feet from\u003cbr\u003ethe ground.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074367471856,"sku":"2940016235011","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016235011_p0.jpg?v=1763639067","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016235011","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}