NSW Rural Fire Service Library
Missing / Tom Patterson.
By: Patterson, Tom [author.]
Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781761066764 (paperback)Subject(s): May, Mark -- Family | May, Mark | Hermits -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography | Hermits -- Family relationships | Recluses -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography | Country life -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography | Brothers -- Australia | Adventure and adventurers -- Australia -- Biography | Wilderness survival -- New South Wales | Families -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography | Wilderness survival -- Australia -- New South Wales | Outdoor life -- Australia -- New South Wales | New South Wales -- BiographyGenre/Form: Biographies. DDC classification: 796.5 PAT | 302.545
"He was brilliant and troubled and for thirty-five years he lived alone in the wild . . . then there was silence"--Cover.
Ending -- Beginning -- Winded -- Ambition -- Away -- The quest -- Speed -- Purity -- Burning -- Odyssey -- Birth -- Gorge I -- Fair fight -- Gorge II -- Gorge III -- Loss -- Gorge IV -- Procedure -- Service -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements.
In 1972 Mark May is eighteen. He is bright, beautiful and has a scholarship to study law. Ten years later he descends alone into remote gorge country in north-western New South Wales. He lives in rough camps and stays for thirty-five years. Then, on a feeling, his brothers go looking for him.
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NSW Rural Fire Service Library General | General 14366 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Checked out | 07/06/2022 | 14366 |
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