This Way to the Sea: The True Story of a New Life with an Old Love

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Allen & Unwin, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 262 pages
A funny, warm and moving memoir, this title is an Australian story about the North Coast of New South Wales.
 

Contents

Section 1
9
Section 2
17
Section 3
22
Section 4
36
Section 5
41
Section 6
43
Section 7
63
Section 8
68
Section 18
158
Section 19
161
Section 20
173
Section 21
174
Section 22
203
Section 23
205
Section 24
210
Section 25
215

Section 9
79
Section 10
84
Section 11
87
Section 12
93
Section 13
100
Section 14
110
Section 15
114
Section 16
124
Section 17
130
Section 26
222
Section 27
228
Section 28
243
Section 29
249
Section 30
253
Section 31
255
Section 32
261
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Page 68 - MENDING WALL Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them...
Page 22 - I'd ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. So I went back to Iowa.
Page 228 - It seems you can't have gracious living and Goannas. Shiny villas multiply On what were quite attractive bits of land, And we'll be getting sewerage by and by. Down where Macpherson's smithy used to stand They've built a supermarket on the sly. "It's progress", says my neighbour; "Things expand.
Page 144 - To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
Page 37 - They say it's not the end of the earth, but you can see it from there.
Page 189 - Oh, what a beautiful morning. Oh, what a beautiful day.
Page 100 - Nature, it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
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Page 213 - Because, you know, the more I think about it the more I feel it's bunk, this self-made business.
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