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A sand archive / Gregory Day.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Australia, 2018.Description: 304 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760552145 (paperback)
- Australian fiction
- Curiosity -- Fiction
- Life -- Fiction
- Civil engineers -- Australia -- Biography -- Fiction
- Civil engineers -- Australia -- Fiction
- Authors, Australian -- Fiction
- Student movements -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Sand dune management -- Fiction
- Sand dunes -- Australia -- Fiction
- Paris (France) -- Politics and government -- 1958-1969 -- Fiction
- Great Ocean Road (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Geelong (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.4 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | DAY | Available | 067983 |
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"A poignant novel of one man's curious life and remarkable afterlife"--Cover.
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...
