THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN LONELINESS
$33.12
- Paperback
245 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2021
Summary
“Of course you’ll take a gun,” they said to me when I left Melbourne, “even if it’s only one of those little mother-of-pearl things the vamps used to carry in their evening-bags. Apart from wild blacks there will be crocodiles, and Malays running amok, and men that haven’t seen a white woman in thirty years. There might be three hundred miles of desolation on a truck with a drunken Afghan, and you’ll be alone in the night-time, in those pearling-towns of sand and sin, with a half-caste woman …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922473608 |
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| ISBN-10: | 192247360X |
| Author: | Ernestine Hill |
| Publisher: | ETT Imprint |
| Imprint: | ETT Imprint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 245 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 402g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 157mm x 235mm |
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