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Waltzing the Magpies: A Year in Australia Hardcover - 2004
by Sam Pickering
While actor Robin Williams may have captured his madcap classroom antics in Dead Poets' Society he didn't uncover the other side of the author--Sam Pickering as one of our great American men of letters.
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- Title Waltzing the Magpies: A Year in Australia
- Author Sam Pickering
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor
- Date 2004-03
- ISBN 9780472113774 / 0472113771
- Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.54 x 6.18 x 1.16 in (24.23 x 15.70 x 2.95 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Australia - Social life and customs, Americans - Australia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003015702
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Booklist, 05/15/2004, Page 1591
- Library Journal, 03/15/2004, Page 76
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Waltzing the Magpies: A Year in Australia by Sam Pickering - uncorrected proofPublisher: University of Michigan Press (2004)ISBN-10: 0472113771ISBN-13: 9780472113774Paperback9 x 6 inches, 304 pagesIt seems a shame to preface any introduction to Pickering by saying he was the inspiration for Robin Williams' character in Dead Poet's Society, but if that's what it takes to get more people to read him, then so be it. In a just world, Pickering would be better known than Williams, and at times, his wry commentary is equally amusing. This new collection of essays should go a long way in gaining him the wider audience he deserves. Like a long, newsy letter from an old friend, Pickering recounts how he packed up his life, his wife, his children, and his penchant for quiet observation and moved the whole kit and caboodle to Australia for a year's sabbatical. Adopting the persona of a Connecticut Yankee in a kangaroo court, Pickering's delight with the natural world continues unabated. The flowers and birds…
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Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minimal edgewear jacket, fore-edge lightly marked. 280 pp. The author is an University of Connecticut English professor, who was played by Robin Williams in the movie "Dead Poets Society". In this travelogue he writes energetically (sometimes critically) about his sabbatical year spent with family travelling around Australia, though based most of the time in Perth. Incredible details about flora and fauna (pedantic, actually). He lapses into his fictional fantasy world of Carthage, Tennessee when highly stressed.
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