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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Sand Archive, A
Author: DAY GREGORY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 24/04/2018
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
<b><i>Long before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky dessicated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but essential to my research</i></b><b>…</b>
Seeking stories of Australia's Great Ocean Road, a young writer stumbles across a small, technical manual from a minor player in the road's history: <i>Dune Stabilisation and Other Engineering Difficulties </i>by 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 <i>sand</i>.
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 and dunes of France begins to change the way he sees Australia's most famous coastal road…
ISBN: 9781760552145
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 233mm X 154mm
Pages: 320
Edition: 01