In the tradition of great family migration stories, Midnight Sun to Southern Crosscontinues the saga of the Back brothers’ flight from Russian-occupied Finland to Australian as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. From frozen Finland to the lush rain forests of northern New South Wales, to the dry and dusty sheep country of western Queensland, you follow the highs and lows of their new life under the Southern Cross. It is an extraordinary tale of success, failure, hard work and dreaming.
Join Ruth Bonetti as she discusses her second instalment of the Back family saga, contrasting her grandfather’s formative years in northern Europe and her own upbringing in outback Queensland and in St Lucia, the iconic Brisbane suburb he would go on to develop.
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