The booklet is currently in draft form: The sections below contain individual chapters that will eventually form Version 1.0 of About The North: An Introduction.
A look at the region delivers several possible entry points. Starting Points and Strands track through what's on offer and indicate the way to whichever point of entry piques the reader's interest.
Borders looks to define The North's geographic limits and links to the rest of Queensland. A discussion of Queensland's railway history may seem off-topic. However, it underlines a regionalism that may not exist to the same extent in other states.
History, Narrative and Back Story outlines how Towards An Outline's intertwined strands link together.
Outlines runs through the back story before the First Fleet arrives in Botany Bay.
Australia continues through the early years of European settlement until John Oxley investigates possible sites for a new penal colony and the convicts arrive in what we now know as Queensland.
Queensland continues through the convict era until the new colony's separation from New South Wales in 1859.