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    Disturbing Element

    By Xavier Herbert

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    Xavier Herbert considers himself the Disturbing Element in the family he claimed never wanted him. Born in 1901 in Western Australia, Herbert grew up amid confusing and sometimes contradictory family legends.

    Often comic, often tragic, Disturbing Element traces Herbert's life as he changes careers from pharmacist to railway fettler to writer. This is the story of an Australian literary legend written in his own classic style.

    'He writes with the passion of a great lover and a great hater.' - Manning Clark, Canberra Times
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA&U House Of Books
    Release dateJun 1, 2012
    ISBN9781742699516
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    Disturbing Element
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    Xavier Herbert

    Xavier Herbert was born in Port Hedland, WA, in 1901. He was educated there and in Fremantle, qualifying as a pharmacist. After World War I he travelled in Australia, reaching Darwin in 1927. There he worked as a railway fettler and visited the South Pacific, experiences that informed his first novel, Capricornia, first published in 1938.

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