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Gould's Book of Fish
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bookshelves: australia, autumn-2012, colonial-overlords, victorian, historical-fiction, hardback, one-penny-wonder, dodgy-narrator, published-2001, teh-brillianz, bedside
Nov 23, 2012
bookshelves: australia, autumn-2012, colonial-overlords, victorian, historical-fiction, hardback, one-penny-wonder, dodgy-narrator, published-2001, teh-brillianz, bedside
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November 23, 2012
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November 23, 2012
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November 23, 2012
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10.15%
"(mid brown coloured ink):THE KELPY- My own small part in the great invasion of Van Dieman's Land as we then knew it - Tasmania, as its native-born now prefer it, shameful stories of the type I tell - has hitherto not been recorded, but I believe my role one worthy both of record and reflection."
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November 24, 2012
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24.01%
"[image error] The Porcupine Fish: At the end of the strangest of voyages, we slowly approached our new prison in the late evening on an early autumn sea so still that we were frequently becalmed."
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97
November 28, 2012
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Finished Reading
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Nov 23, 2012 06:49AM
Beautiful cover. Sounds to be a good story, too.
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Thanks for the likes. Beguiling novelisation of a gifted but flawed man and the book itself is sumptious to the eye.
Lovely pictures you chose. I used to have a small puffer fish and let me tell you that is a fish with a personality :-D This book sounds beautiful, most definitely not something for the kindle but for a rich and heavy hard-back.
Jeanette wrote: "Lovely pictures you chose. I used to have a small puffer fish and let me tell you that is a fish with a personality :-D This book sounds beautiful, most definitely not something for the kindle but..."
Thanks Jeanette - you are right; this book and the coloured edition of House of Leaves are definitely pivotal arguments as to how not everything can be shrunk down to ereaders.
These pictures are from the authentic book that this book is about.
Can't recommend this read too highly.
:O)
Thanks Miriam - you would love this:O)
