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First known date: 2006 Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Alexandria
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Dessaix draws on the works of Durrell, Forster and Cavafy in this prose piece about travels to Alexandria, Egypt.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon ABC News [Online] January 2006 7615891 2006 periodical issue 2006
    Note: Broadcast: Saturday 14 January 2006. Available as transcript
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon As I Was Saying Robert Dessaix , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2012 Z1836181 2012 selected work essay autobiography prose 'As I Was Saying is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness. Punctuated at regular intervals by talks Dessaix has given on a wide range of subjects, as well as by some of his most incisive journalism, the conversation invites the reader to join a leisurely guided tour of his chamber of curiosities, featuring pieces collected all over the globe from across the centuries. Whether writing home from Vladivostock or Damascus, discussing what makes for good conversation or thinking aloud about the paintings, poems and books he loves, Dessaix always writes with an intimacy and attentiveness that beguile, entertain and make his readers eager for new discoveries.' (Publisher's blurb)
    North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2012
    pg. 89-106
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Subjects:
  • Alexandria,
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    Egypt,
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    North Africa, Africa,
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