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Appleby's End
New York (City)
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Dodd, Mead
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1945
Z1097367
1945
single work
novel
detective
crime
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The Coast of Coral
New York (City)
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Harper and Brothers
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1956
Z1808294
1956
single work
prose
travel
'Stretching for 1200 miles along the tropical coast of Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is the mightiest coral formation in the world. Arthur Clarke and Mike Wilson spent two adventurous years exploring the Reef - above and below water - and this book tells their story.
The Reef is a vast range of "underwater mountains", whose shifting moods strike terror in the hearts of sailors and can spell death for the careless diver. But the bizarre and challenging spectacles were irresistible to Clarke and Wilson: they saw the dreaded stonefish and the giant manta ray, the lovely fire fish, and the Australian shark, which unlike its relatives elsewhere, is a genuine maneater.
Their report - illustrated with rare underwater photographs - gives us our first look into a region of mystery, of boundless beauty and danger, one of the last and most intriguing unexplored frontiers on our planet.' (Source: back cover, Harper and Row, 1965 edition)
New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1965 -
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Fabulous Nobodies
London
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Chatto and Windus
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1989
Z179254
1989
single work
novel
New York (City)
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Harper and Row
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1990
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