BEYOND THE BLACK STUMP Nevil Shute London: Heinemann, January 1974 (© 1956) |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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ISBN-13 978-0-434-69920-9 | ||||
ISBN-10 0-434-69920-9 | 297pp. | HC | £4.50 |
Page 149: | "All through April the drill bored deeper, making good about a hundred feet a day on the average." |
Word order: S/B "making about a hundred good feet a day". |
Page 149: | "Early in the month they struck the first layer of anhydrite, a belt of hard-cap rock about fifteen feet thick." |
Misplaced hyphen: S/B "hard cap-rock". |
Page 175: | "You want an outboard boat with a pretty big motor, twenty-five horsepower or so." |
Word order: S/B "a boat with a pretty big outboard motor". |