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Writing off fiction for fact
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It seems you have posted the same link as I did earlier. If you read the posts you will see the argument is not about the accuracy of the movie but rather whether the journey of escape and travelling so many miles to return home even occurred.
Loudmouth thinks it did not. Windshuttle asserts it did. What do you think?
Dear Loudmouth,
You wrote;
“You know, we are talking about three young girls walking a thousand miles across extremely harsh country, moon-scape in parts.”
From Windshuttle's article;
The author “researched the vegetation the girls would have encountered in the various districts they traversed, the land use by white farmers and pastoralists in the early 1930s, the contemporary pattern of tracks, roads and railways (some now long-closed), the animals the girls would have come across at that time of season, and the weather in those months of the year. “
Now I find Windshuttle a particularly sloppy historian who has been shown up time and time again constructing narratives without evidence or holding on to them when countervailing evidence is provided. However you used to think far more highly of him than that. He says he researched the story and found little to fault with the book. Why do you so distrust his endevours? Perhaps in future you should refrain from quoting him.