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Beyond The Black Stump
bookshelves: nutty-nuut, autumn-2014, tbr-busting-2014, published-1956, bedside, lit-richer, drilling-mining-digging, australia, ipad
Read from October 17 to November 07, 2014
Description: Stanton Laird, a young American geologist with a secret, comes to the Australian outback to search for oil. There he meets an unconventional farming family and falls in love with their Mollie Regan. However cultural differences between Stanton's and Mollie's worlds force the two lovers to make difficult decisions.
Opening: “A NUMBER of substances that are trapped in the earth’s crust will influence a Geiger counter sufficiently to set it clicking, and one of the feeblest of these influences is oil imprisoned in a salt dome or an anticline. Stanton Laird sat in an office of the Topeka Exploration Company Inc., on the eighteenth floor of the Topex Building in Cedar Street in downtown New York City, and explained his work again to Mr. Sam Johnson.”
4* A Town Like Alice
4* On the Beach
3* The Far Country
3* Requiem for a Wren
3* Round the Bend
3.5 Beyond The Black Stump
3* No Highway
Opening: “A NUMBER of substances that are trapped in the earth’s crust will influence a Geiger counter sufficiently to set it clicking, and one of the feeblest of these influences is oil imprisoned in a salt dome or an anticline. Stanton Laird sat in an office of the Topeka Exploration Company Inc., on the eighteenth floor of the Topex Building in Cedar Street in downtown New York City, and explained his work again to Mr. Sam Johnson.”
4* A Town Like Alice
4* On the Beach
3* The Far Country
3* Requiem for a Wren
3* Round the Bend
3.5 Beyond The Black Stump
3* No Highway
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