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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Bypass : The Story of a Road
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Notes

  • Dedication: For Jenny
  • Epigraph: Give a man a road and he has a library. Mary Gilmore, Hound of the Road.
  • Epigraph: Sancho answered, 'There's no road so smooth that it ain't got a few potholes.' Cervante, Don Quixote.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Picador , 2004 .
      Extent: 313p.
      ISBN: 0330364936
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Subjects:
  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria,
Settings:
  • Hume Highway, New South Wales,
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