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Despite being set in two different centuries, nearly 100 years apart, the books in today’s post share one element: a blinkered Euro-centric view of life “down under”. Read on to see what I mean. In A Town Like Alice (1950, … Continue reading →
Posted in Adventure, Am reading, Australia, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, New Zealand, Travel
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Tagged Lady Barker, Nevil Shute, Paul Theroux
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