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| Zane Grey, besides being a best-selling writer of western novels, was an enthusiastic fisherman. He helped establish deep-sea sport fishing in New South Wales at Bermagui, on the south coast. He was patron of the Bermagui Sport Fishing Association for 1936 and 1937, and set a number of world records with his catches.
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| (Robert Byron)
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| Byron is best known for "The Road to Oxiana", however this book also displays his remarkable ability to describe a situation, a building or a scene in a few words. The book starts with a description of Bolshevism as Byron saw it during his visit to Russia in the early 1930s and then goes on to describe the people and architecture in Moscow and Leningrad. He then goes on to describe a hair-raising ride in a plane to India, from where he and two friends undertakes a journey by horse into Tibet.
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| (William Mogford Hamlet)
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| W. Mogford Hamlet twice walked from Brisbane to Sydney (1907 and 1913) and in 1912 he walked from Sydney to Melbourne, covering some 750 miles (1200 km) in thirty-three days. At the time, accounts of this trips were serialised in the Sydney Morning Herald. Those accounts are now, for the first time, presented here in one volume. Hamlet presents us with the sights and sounds of the country and describes many of the towns he passed through. He also draws word pictures of some of the characters he meets along the way.
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| (Robert Byron)
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| Paul Fussell wrote that "What 'Ulysses' is to the novel between the wars and what 'The Waste Land' is to poetry, 'The Road to Oxiana' is to the travel book." In this remarkable book, Byron describes his journey through the Middle East, along the way providing a rare account of the architectural treasures of an area now inaccessible to most Western travellers.
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| (Robert Byron)
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| Byron travels to Mount Athos in Greece, along the way describing his passage by ship from England, the monks of Athos and the treasures held in their monasteries.
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