Beyond the equator : an Australian memoir
Hasluck, Nicholas, 1942-2019
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Like many young Australians in the 1960s Nick Hasluck set sail for London, in his case for a post-graduate law degree, but looking also for new horizons and ways to be a writer. From a seedy room at the International Language Club he explored the 'Kangaroo Valley' party scene around Earl's Court until he met a girl from the Cotswolds who was to change his life, a romance leading to misadventures in Europe and eventually to a job in Fleet Street. Britain was opening up to him in unexpected ways. He recalls combative speakers at the Oxford Union, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Tariq Ali and luminaries in other places such as Menzies, Profumo, Field Marshal Slim and the controversial jurists, Hailsham and Denning. Along the way, Hasluck writes skilfully of becoming a lawyer, then a Judge, and also a well-known novelist. In this eloquent memoir the mind of the lawyer is constantly enriched by the style of the writer. To a lively storyteller the world beyond the equator is still the miracle it always was.
Main title:
Beyond the equator : an Australian memoir / Nicholas Hasluck.
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Imprint:
North Melbourne, Vic : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd., 2019.
Collation:
vi, 282 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781925984118
Dewey class:
340.92340
Language:
English
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BRN:
371022
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 340 HAS | Available |