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Patterson, Tom2022
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In 1972 Mark May is eighteen. He is bright, beautiful and has a scholarship to study law. Ten years later he descends alone into remote gorge country in north-western New South Wales. He lives in rough camps and stays for thirty-five years. Then, on a feeling, his brothers go looking for him.
Main title:
Missing / by Tom Patterson.
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Imprint:
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.©2022.
Collation:
276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"He was brilliant and troubled and for thirty-five years he lived alone in the wild . . . then there was silence"--Cover.
Contents:
Ending -- Beginning -- Winded -- Ambition -- Away -- The quest -- Speed -- Purity -- Burning -- Odyssey -- Birth -- Gorge I -- Fair fight -- Gorge II -- Gorge III -- Loss -- Gorge IV -- Procedure -- Service -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements.
ISBN:
9781761066764 (paperback)
Dewey class:
BIOGRAPHY
Language:
English
Subject:
May, Mark -- FamilyHermits -- Australia -- New South Wales -- BiographyHermits -- Family relationshipsRecluses -- Australia -- New South Wales -- BiographyCountry life -- Australia -- New South Wales -- BiographyAdventure and adventurers -- Australia -- BiographyWilderness survival -- Australia -- New South WalesOutdoor life -- Australia -- New South Wales
BRN:
402967
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