On the 31st October 1999 Jesse Martin, in his yacht, Lionheart, completed the last great adventure of the twentieth century becoming the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. He was eighteen years old and didn't know the meaning of impossible. After 50 000km and 328 days at sea he returned home to Port Phillip Bay and a waiting crowd of 20 000 onlookers, having lived his dream.

To go where no missionary had ever been, to smell the smoke of unknown villages, to witness peoples beyond the vast Kalahari, such were the dreams of David Livingstone. 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'

In 1902 Mrs Aeneas Gunn went with her husband to live on the remote Elsey cattle station near the Roper River in the Northern Territory. 'We of the Never-Never' and 'The Little Black Princess' are two classics of Australian literature that she wrote about her experiences in the outback. Both works have been presented here as one special condensed edition to accompany the magnificanet film 'We of the Never-Never'