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8 folders
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Fly Away Peter is a novella, set in Queensland before the First World War, the story of Jim Sadler, a dedicated bird watcher, Ashley Crowther, his employer and Imogen Harcourt, an eccentric English photographer. It was first published in 1981 with Child’s Play under the title The Bread of Time to Come. It was republished in 1982 as Fly Away Peter. This subseries includes “original first hand-written drafts of Fly Away Peter (usually referred to as Birds)” [D.M.]; rewritten first draft in Brisbane; first typescript draft; second typescript draft; rewritten passages in second typescript draft; chapters 8, 10, 15 of first typescript reworked and replaced and afterword to Fly Away Peter.
Fly Away Peter was the winner of the 1982 Age Book of the Year Award.
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Unrestricted access.
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- English
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Box 2 Folders 1-8
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Previously housed in Box 1 Folder 2 (163/B/I to 163/B/VII-3) ; and described as Series B.
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Created, Linda Justo, 25-Oct-2021.