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Melbourne: Viking. 2009. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Black & white map. Previous owner's details [small] to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 270 pages. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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Birdsville: My Year in the Back of Beyond Hardcover - 2009
by Evan McHugh
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- Title Birdsville: My Year in the Back of Beyond
- Author Evan McHugh
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 270
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking, Australia
- Date 2009
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780670072712 / 0670072710
- Library of Congress subjects McHugh, Evan, Country life - Australia - Queensland -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011431737
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Viking, 2009. Softcover. Near Fine. For a town with seventy residents (on a good day), Birdsville is remarkably well known - the Birdsville Track, the rodeo, the pub, the infamous races. With its ruggedness, inaccessibility and larrikin charm, this small town on the edge of the Simpson Desert has become a symbol of the great Australian outback. What is it about Birdsville that has made it stand so large in our legends? And what's it like to live there amongst the floods and the heat and the dust storms? To find out, Evan McHugh packed up his Sydney home, bought a four-wheel drive and headed off with his wife for a year in the back of beyond. Here, he tells us of the large adventures - midnight desert rescues, aerial mustering on vast cattle stations, relentless heat and massive floods - but also the small details of life in one of Australia's most isolated towns, like driving 700 km to go shopping. As the months fly by, Evan learns about an ancient culture, sees dunes carpeted in millions of tiny…
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