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A Tramp's Wallet
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A Tramp's Wallet Paperback - 2011

by Samuel F. Pickering

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In A Tramp's Wallet, Sam Pickering spends six months roaming Australia and New Zealand, tramping landscapes pocked by sheep stations, mountains rip-rapped by scree, art galleries and bakeries, and always libraries. Pickering lectures on a cruise ship, travels the Murray River on a paddle wheeler, and rides the train from Sydney to Perth.

The saunterings of one of America's best and most popular essayists stretch the seams of A Tramp's Wallet, the coins of the page being six months spent alone in Australia and New Zealand. Far from the hoes and saws that prune days into convention, life flourishes, and this book is weedy and rankly rich with thought and description. "Lord," St. Odo of Cluny said on his deathbed, "I have loved the beauty of thy house." In A Tramp's Wallet, Sam Pickering records his love of that house, and, if truth must out, his love for a few neglected out buildings barns and backhouses, even the ramshakled huts of thought.

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  • Title A Tramp's Wallet
  • Author Samuel F. Pickering
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 276
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mercer University Press, Macon, Ga.
  • Publication date 2011-05
  • Features Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780881462357 / 0881462357
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Australian
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Australia - Social life and customs, Americans - Australia
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011002066
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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A Tramp's Wallet
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A Tramp's Wallet

by Pickering, Sam

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Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2011. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 276 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 458557
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