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Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living (Record no. 661)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780330437776
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.92
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Personal name Tiffany, Carrie
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Title Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Pan Macmillan;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2006
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 255 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2006.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. It is 1934, the Great War is long over and the next is yet to come. Amid billowing clouds of dust and information, the government 'Better Farming Train' slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing expert advice to those living on the land. The train is on a crusade to persuade the country that science is the key to successful farming, and that productivity is patriotic. In the swaying cars an unlikely love affair occurs between Robert Pettergree, a man with an unusual taste for soil, and Jean Finnegan, a talented young seamstress with a hunger for knowledge. In an atmosphere of heady scientific idealism, they marry and settle in the impoverished Mallee with the ambition of proving that a scientific approach to cultivation can transform the land. But after seasons of failing crops, and with a new World War looming, Robert and Jean are forced to confront each other, the community they have inadvertently destroyed, and the impact of their actions on an ancient and fragile landscape. Shot through with humour and a quiet wisdom, this haunting first novel vividly captures the hope and the disappointment of the era when it was possible to believe in the perfectibility of both nature and humankind.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History
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Topical term or geographic name entry element War
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Contemporary Fiction
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Adult Fiction 14/06/2016 1 823.92 PKLC002159 18/10/2016 14/06/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17   04/10/2016
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Adult Fiction 04/05/2016   823.92 PKLC004384 04/05/2016 04/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 For Sale