Nightingale (39 page)

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First published by Penguin Group (Australia), 2014

Text copyright © Fiona McIntosh 2014

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Cover photographs: Woman by Peter Zelei/Getty Images, tent by Charles Yacout/Getty Images, Sky by Grant Faint/Getty Images, birds by Robert Adrian Hillman/Shutterstock.com

With thanks to D. I. McIntosh and family for the photograph on p iv

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ISBN: 978-1-74348-387-9