| In the Wet Contributor(s): Shute, Nevil (Author) |
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ISBN: 1727334108 ISBN-13: 9781727334104 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6" W x 9" (0.65 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Shute's speculative glance into the future of the British Empire. An elderly clergyman stationed in the Australian bush is called to the bedside of a dying derelict. In his delirium Stevie tells a story of England in 1983 through the medium of a squadron air pilot in the service of Queen Elizabeth II. It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world... |