Overview
It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world...
It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world...
- | Author: Nevil Shute
- | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- | Publication Date: Sep 03, 2009
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780099530046
- | ISBN-10: 009953004X