I come bearing gifts...

Well I'm back from yet another sensational and scintillating Port Stephens trip, it seriously is the best place ever. This site seems best suited to showcasing photos and stuff I've brought, and since both of these came abundantly from my trip, there is much to be posted. The photos are still trapped in the camera, so onto the books, though not in detail...yet.

These three riveting titles, in no particular order, were bought from various junk stores, though I prefer the term 'storehouse of untreasured yet highly valuable items at rather low prices'. I've added an interesting quote from each.

*'Duck Guns, Shooting and Decoying'
By Howard M. Salisbury
Paul, Richmond & Company Publishers Chicago
1947

"The thrill of hearing the eerie call of passing geese or the sight of great skeins of ducks is deeply inborn into the very soul of the American gunner"

* 'The Nature of Light, with a general account of physical optics'
'The International Scientific Series'
By Eugene Lommel
Henry S. King & Co. London
1875

"Light must consist in the undulatory movement of an attenuated elastic substance"

* 'Life in the Future - Prospects for Man and Nature'
By Malcolm Ross-Macdonald
Aldus Books Limited, London
1977

"(In the early 21st Century) a really rapid and far reaching mass transit system capable of outpacing even airplanes could end the brief reign of the private car".

In due course I shall happily devour these books for your reading pleasure, though I'm not particularly fussed if no-one is reading this, which seems to be the case. That may have something to do with the fact that almost no-one knows it exists. Sigh.