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Albert of Adelaide

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by Howard Anderson


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  Contents

  Welcome

  Dedication

  Map

  Preface

  1: Desert Crossing

  2: Jack the Wombat

  3: Stones That Speak

  4: Ponsby Station

  5: The Evil Gin Does

  6: About the Night Before

  7: Alone Again

  8: The Gates of Hell

  9: Bertram and Theodore

  10: TJ

  11: Every Paw Turned Against Him

  12: A Paradise Lost

  13: Bushrangers

  14: Last Stand of the Fusiliers

  15: On Brown Snakes and Bandicoots

  16: The Platypus Gang

  17: The Wages of Sin

  18: “We Didn’t Have Any Choice”

  19: Good-bye to Barton Springs

  20: “They Ate Alvin”

  21: A Circus Tent

  22: The Famous Muldoon

  23: Dingoes

  24: Moonlight and Laundry

  25: A Platypus Unleashed

  26: Good Intentions

  27: Marsupials Forever

  28: An Illusion of the Present

  29: The Winners

  30: A Lesson in History

  31: The Distant Mountain

  About the Author

  Reading Group Guide

  Acclaim for Albert of Adelaide

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  Copyright

  Copyright

  Copyright © 2012 by Howard L. Anderson

  Reading Group Guide copyright © 2013 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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