Edgar deBurgh Norman Edgar deBurgh Norman i(7246584 works by)
Born: Established: 8 Oct 1891 ; Died: Ceased: 3 Dec 1985
Gender: Male
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1 1 y separately published work icon A Pearler's Wife : Chapter Extraction from A Pearling Master's Journey G. V. Norman , John Edgar deBurgh Norman , Edgar deBurgh Norman (illustrator), Strathfield : G. V. Norman , 2009 7246793 2009 single work extract
1 1 y separately published work icon A Pearling Master's Journey : In the Wake of the Schooner Mist G. V. Norman , John Edgar deBurgh Norman (editor), Edgar deBurgh Norman (illustrator), Strathfield : John Edgar deBurgh Norman , 2007 7246658 2007 single work non-fiction

'The much-travelled battered black metal trunk, a legacy of many voyages, had not been opened for forty years and lay sitting on four bricks at the back of the dusty cellar... The heavy brass Yale padlock, fully two and a quarter inches wide, was tarnished and the type favoured by mariners a century earlier. It yielded noiselessly to the key and a little lubrication. The white steel hasp was pried free, and the steel bar slid back from the staples with some protest... dusty parcel lay between the folded khaki trousers and tunic of a soldier of the Great War. The black and faded creamy yellow shoulder patches has lost the freshness of colour of that time, but the brass letter A was prominent. Inside was an octavo-sized photo album with a frayed and faded green cover. The photographs looked of professional quality...' (Publisher's blurb)
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