This book tells the stories of the people after whom streets of Alice Springs are named. It includes flora and fauna names, Aboriginal works etc plus school logos.

Aspects of the historical geography of Central Australia; brief historical context and description of Aboriginal regional occupation - Aboriginal sites of significance mentioned; contact history sites - description, physical layout and history of Hermannsburg and Phillip Creek (Manga Manga); chapters on pastoral homesteads, wells on north-south stock route, mining at Arltunga and Tennant Creek, urbanisation of Alice Springs; cultural resource managment in Central Australia.