Disturbing Element by Xavier Herbert

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned.

Xavier Herbert considers himself the Disturbing Element in the family he claimed never wanted him. Born in 1901 in Geraldton, 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.