The Lucky Galah
It's 1969 and a remote coastal town in Western Australia is poised to play a pivotal part in the moon landing. Perched on the red dunes of its outskirts looms the great Dish: a relay for messages between Apollo 11 and Houston, Texas. Crouched around a single grainy set, radar technician Evan...
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It's 1969 and a remote coastal town in Western Australia is poised to play a pivotal part in the moon landing. Perched on the red dunes of its outskirts looms the great Dish: a relay for messages between Apollo 11 and Houston, Texas. Crouched around a single grainy set, radar technician Evan Johnson and his colleagues stare at the screen, transfixed, as Armstrong takes tha
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ISBN:
9781760552657
Publisher: Picador Australia
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
In lots of ways this book was a joy to read, some of the passages are just glorious (see pages 20 and 124). I loved Lucky and in some ways the anthropomorphising of him served to highlight the damage we do when we cage birds. I also loved the two main families. Sorensen managed to give each member a...
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