Couldn't find one but in the process got much of it nicely stacked away and ready for next winter. It was a productive day yesterday, if splitting wood from two giant gum trees can be called productive. I call it bloody exhausting and so I rewarded myself with a day off in town today, lunching at our favourite Thai restaurant and buying a few more books at my favourite op-shop.
So what are the books, I hear you ask? "Venice - Pure City" by Peter Ackroyd, a sumptious hardcover edition; Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint", an old one but good one; "The Irrawaddy", a novel by some unknown author, Peter Browne, but anything to do with Burma is irresistible to me; a slim volume of selected poems of Tennyson ("Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred" and all that); and "More Book Lust" by Nancy Pearl which, as I've just now discovered, is a sequel to "Book Lust", so I'm searching for that one as well on ebay. *)
Speaking of which, my ebay order of "Islands - From Atlantis to Zanzibar" has also arrived in the post. Eighteen dollars worth of escapism.
P.S. Nothing on ebay, but Book Depository have it for $29.60 - click here, and www.archive.org have "Book Lust To Go - Recommended reading for travelers, vagabonds, and dreamers" for online reading - click here.
