don't know many. Alexader Dumas and Jean-Paul Satre. I'll go for Satre?
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don't know many. Alexader Dumas and Jean-Paul Satre. I'll go for Satre?
The Broadway musical sounds like Victor Hugo.
The only thing I know of his is les Miserables.
Edit : or it could be Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux ( I had to google to get the author)
Damn you Andrew Lloyd Webber!
Victor Hugo, Les Mis. You get the golden prize, Bleedin.
Gave away too much in the hints i reckon.
FWIW, Les Miserables is the only fiction book I've ever read more than once. Bit slow at first, but what a fantastic story. Highly recommend it.
And I'm not sure I'd want to see a broadway musical of something written by Sartre :no:
Tex
PS. Hugo also wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dame
Yeah, there aren't too many French based Broadway Musicals, mind you I forgot about ol Hunchie did Mr Webber have a go at him too?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tex B
Anyway What Aussie novel is set mostly inside the Southern Cross Hotel and acurately describes pub culture and its colourful inhabitants.
Written Mid 70's.
The title is a vehicle that will transport you away from your worries.
"Wife Swap" :D (joking), Don's Party the serious shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bleedin Thumb
Nah Sheddie.
Next clue.
The title is also a symbolic reference to a schooner of beer.
EDIT or a pot of beer if you live in Qld, what do mexicans call it ? Twinkie? Thimble?
Glass Canoe by David Ireland
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Originally Posted by Andy Mac
Well done Mr Mac That was the one I was after - a very good read too I might add.
Over to you........
Thanks BT,Quote:
Originally Posted by Bleedin Thumb
It was a good read, and I also enjoyed his Unknown Industrial Prisoner, most of his books really...:) Alright it seems to be a book theme here.
An English gardener, wrote a (non-fiction) book in Australia in the middle of the 1800's; tree lover and comrade of a well known horse eater.:?:D Who was he and what was the book?
Cheers,
Clues: As inspector of forests, he warned the govt. that red cedar would be commercially extinct at the current rate of logging. Also discovered the only Australian species of beech; and several plants were named after him.
Cheers,
I was going to say Syms Covington aka Charles Darwins bag man but inspector of forests sounds like it could have been Allan Cunningham or Von Mueller.
Getting warmer....:wink:
James Backhouse? And the book "The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843"?
I'm guessing that the reference to a horse eater refers to the diet on this voyage?
No Alex, but you're on the right track about emergency food supplies! He was involved in exploration....and NSW was a lot bigger back then.
Cheers,
I thought horse eater was a slang term for Frenchman?