Red Dog

Red Dog

by Alan Baker (Illustrator), Alan Baker (Illustrator), Alan Baker (Illustrator), Louis de Bernières (Author)

Synopsis

'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never-ending bush. I imagine that Mars must have a similar feel to it. I went exploring and discovered the bronze statue to Red Dog outside the town of Dampier. I felt straight away that I had to find out more about this splendid dog. A few months later I returned to Western Australia and spent two glorious weeks driving around collecting Red Dog stories and visiting the places that he knew, writing up the text as I went along. I hope my cat never finds out that I have written a story to celebrate the life of a dog.'

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
Published: 04 Oct 2001

ISBN 10: 0436256177
ISBN 13: 9780436256172