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DAVID DUFTY Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

DAVID DUFTY Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

by NRB | 20 Nov 2024 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Many great men are remembered for only one thing, and for Charles Todd it is building the Overland Telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin in the 1870s. David Dufty’s book Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession is not a biography but rather a venture story set against...
             

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