More Travels:: Adventures in India, Africa and Australia in Art and Poetry

By Julie Vincent

More Travels: India, Africa and Australia in Art and Poetry. Returning from overseas and still searching for direction, Julie Vincent heads north and explores the wonders of Australias top end before heading to India and Africa.

This book follows on from Travels Within: Art and Poetry, which explores the intimate journey of completing a PhD while escaping domestic violence. The art began, having banned herself from writing poetry that resulted in twenty-five art exhibitions with poetry in the six months before submitting my doctoral thesis.

Travels Without: My Fabulous Adventures Europe and America in Art and Poetry. Having submitted and equipped with paper and pastels, Julies escapade to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Venice, six weeks in Italy, Spain, Belgium, New York, New Orleans, and London are recorded in art and poetry.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Jan 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514441763

Julie Vincent

Julie is an artist, poet, singer, song writer, PhD, and given the opportunity, a performer. She finished her PhD in Social Theory on the ethics of practice in mental health services at The University of Melbourne and travelled the world, creating art and poetry as she went. She came back and travelled across the top end, creating songs, poems and art works en route. She lectured at Newcastle University School of Nursing and volunteered in Orphanages in India and a health project in Uganda and the World Social Forum in Nairobi. In 2008 she was in an accident that nearly killed her and saved her life. She had a spiritual experience and married an Aboriginal man and found herself in Alice Springs Volunteering with Indigenous kids!

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Rev. date: 01/12/2016

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Contents

I. Australia

Whitsundays

Hamilton Island

Port Douglas (Song)

Legendary Tour Guide Cape York

The Telegraph Track

Cassowary

White Weipa

Black Weipa

On The Balcony

Time to focus

Wenlock River

Rise the Moon

Bouchat

Sunset Walk

Across the Harbour

Katherine to Kununurra

Gibb River Road

Couples on the Road (Song)

McGowan’s Island

Broome

Cape Leveque (Song)

Broome Broome Broome

II. Indian and African Adventures

Adventures in seven weeks

Delhi

India

On the Road

How to Live in Bliss

The Tigers are Missing

Taj Mahal

Varanasi

Manna Ministries Orphanages India

Arriving

Indian Orphanage

Bhimavaram

Mumbai

Social Forum Nairobi

Protest

Nairobi

I. Australia

Whitsundays

Whitsundays

Come to the Whitsundays

Full of dreams and sunny days

Sailing and diving

Fun high flying

Cruising the sea

Breeze sailing me

Islands off shore

Seventy two or more

Hayman and Hamilton

Day dream and Lindeman

Hook and Dent

Offering fun for all

On National Parks

A mixture of shores

Beaches and night clubs

Wallabies and butterflies

Lots of bird life

And lots more

All surrounded by the wonder

Of the Great Barrier Reef

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