In which comedy gives way, gradually, to awe.

The closing volume, where the Colonel runs out of clever things to say. Deep time, kinship, and legacy — the moments the bush stops being a subject for field notes and simply is.

61 — The Same Ancestor

62 — The Option

63 — What Was Here

64 — Sixty-Eight Metres

65 — The Night Arrangement

66 — The Country

67 — The Wrong Name

68 — Knowing

69 — Still Here

70 — The Dead Tree

71 — The Sub-Contractor

72 — What Is Inside

73 — The Elephant’s Cousin

74 — The Waggle

75 — Present

76 — Before the Crisis

77 — Please

78 — A Complete Design