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Post Impressions: A Travel Book for Tragic Intellectuals | 
 enlarge | Author: Hollis Taylor
Creator: Jon Rose
Publisher: Twisted Fiddle
Category: Book
Buy New: $35.00
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2475045
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 243
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0646471740
EAN: 9780646471747
ASIN: 0646471740
Publication Date: August 20, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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Product Description
An American woman and an Australian man set out to explore and perform on the giant musical instruments covering the continent of Australia: fences. In pursuit of their instruments, including the Rabbit-Proof Fence and the 3300-mile long Dingo Fence, the duo survive several boggings, a fly plague, a flea infestation, deadly snakes and crocodiles, heatstroke, floods, storms, bush fires, and their own ignorance. They travel 25,000 miles, engaging with a flying priest, an auctioneer, an Aboriginal gumleaf virtuoso, the first piano in Central Australia, a singing dingo, fence runners, and other colorful bush personalities. They enjoy al fresco meals washed down with fine Australian wines as they discover the colors of sky and earth, the songs of birds, and the essential virtues of the fly veil. Their travelogue, by turns bent and philosophical, includes a bonus DVD of 40 outback fence performances, 88 color photos, and fence music and birdsong transcriptions.
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| Customer Reviews:
What Fences Sound Like April 2, 2008
Walt Lindon (Springfield, OR USA)
This is a delightful & wonderful work about a remarkable adventure: exploring Australia's Outback (and Infront) armed with rosined bows, microphones, and cameras...like a National Geographic production on Aesthetic Steroids. Jon Rose's photos and vids are enchanting. Hollis Taylor's narrative is rich, literate, allusive, evocative...superbly written, in short. If you are familiar with their music CD "Great Fences of Australia" this book/DVD is a must-have, it's the full behind-the-music report of that project. But if you're not, it's likely that this book/DVD will lead you to experience the mysterious & beautiful sounds on the CD. Highly recommended.
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