Title A sand archive / Gregory Day

Published Sydney, NSW : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Australia, 2018 ©2018

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
ADPML SPWV	827.04 D2738 A6/S		LIB USE ONLY
WATERFT	827.04 D2738 A6/S		AVAILABLE

Description 304 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm Summary Seeking stories of Australia's Great Ocean Road, a young writer stumbles across a manual from a minor player in the road's history, FB Herschell. It is a volume unremarkable in every way, save for the surprising portrait of its author that can be read between its lines: a vision of a man who writes with uncanny poetry about sand. And as he continues to mine the archive of FB Herschell - engineer, historian, philosopher - it is not the subject, but the man who begins to fascinate. A man whose private revolution among the streets of Paris in May 1968 begins to change the way he views life, love, and the coastal landscape into which he was born. Analysis Australian Notes "A poignant novel of one man's curious life and remarkable afterlife"--Cover Subject Australian fiction. Authors -- Fiction. Authors, Australian -- Fiction. Civil engineers -- Australia -- Biography -- Fiction. Curiosity -- Fiction. Civil engineers -- Australia -- Fiction. Life -- Fiction. Sand dune management -- Fiction. Sand -- Fiction. Sand dunes -- Australia -- Fiction. Student movements -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. SUBJECT Geelong (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79105697 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Great Ocean Road (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86003131 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Paris (France) -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001006689 -- 1958-1969 -- Fiction Genre/Form Fiction. Biographies. ISBN 9781760552145 (paperback)

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