Walkabout Year: Twelve Months in Australia
by Pickering, Sam
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0826210430
- ISBN 13
- 9780826210432
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About This Item
University of Missouri Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 318 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. "Reading Pickering," said Smithsonian, "is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend." In Walkabout Year, Samuel Pickering, the professor who inspired the movie Dead Poets Society, provides an intimate, engaging chronicle of his family's year in Western Australia. The reader is pulled into Pickering's tight family circle and off on an intriguing trip to another land. With humor, skill, and insight, Pickering describes the educational system his three children experienced; the family's journeys from one area of the country to another as he lectured; and the people--both academics and nonacademics--he encountered. He compares the flora, fauna, and economics to those in America, and reveals much else about daily life in a new country. As a result, Walkabout Year is part travelogue, part reflection on the differences between two cultures, and part autobiography. As Smithsonian stated, "Pickering has created his own comfortable world, and it is always a pleasure to slip into his company for a time." Readers will feel a strong bond with the family and as if they too have been thoroughly exposed to the intriguing world of Australia. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0826210430. ISBN/EAN: 9780826210432. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3618. . 9780826210432
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3618
- Title
- Walkabout Year: Twelve Months in Australia
- Author
- Pickering, Sam
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0826210430
- ISBN 13
- 9780826210432
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Pickering, Samuel F., 1941---Travel--Australia, English teachers--Australia--Biography, Americans--Australia--Biography, Australia--Social life and customs Travel & Places; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0826210430 EAN: 9780826210432 P
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