The Geelong Doctor
George Ernest Morrison’s Quiet Walk Across Southwest China
In 1894, an Australian doctor named George Ernest Morrison walked 2,400 kilometres across southwest China with two porters whose names history nearly forgot: Lao Wang (老王) and Lao Zeng (老曾). He spoke no Chinese. After one hundred days, they reached the Burmese frontier.
It was one of the great Australian adventure stories of its time. Today almost nobody knows it.
The Geelong Doctor strips the journey back to its essentials: the river, the road, the mountains, and the people met along the way. It is the story of an Australian walking through a country he didn’t understand and coming out the other side challenged to consider other perspectives, if not transformed.
ISBN: 978-1-7646790-0-8
Available globally through Amazon online and on order at all major booksellers in Australia.