My Crowded Solitude

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Canonical title

My Crowded Solitude

Original publication date

1926

People/Characters

Mary Brown; Jack McLaren

Important places

Cape York, Queensland, Australia

Dedication

To Mother and Mary

First words

On a mighty blaze on a mighty tree are cut two initials and a date. The initials are mine, the date is when I began an eight years' lonely residence among the most backward race of people in the whole of the tropical South P... (show all)acific, which is a place where backward people abound.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And then the wanderlust welled up in me, strongly, insistently, and grew to a tidal wave which drowned all other thought, flooded all other desire, washed clear away the dead debris of the urge which had caused me to settle at all. The wilding that was ME would not be denied. I accepted the price - and set forth on my wanderings once more.