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    Fabric of America
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    Fabric of America

    Written by Andro Linklater

    Narrated by Nelson Runger

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    About this audiobook

    Using the same blend of narrative and rhetorical brilliance that made his critically acclaimed debut history so successful, Andro Linklater begins with premier U.S. surveyor Andrew Ellicott calculating the Pennsylvania-Virginia border in 1784- using telescope, chronograph, and astronomical tables. As pioneers move westward, Ellicott and his kind create property which hastens the formation of stabilizing government.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateApr 24, 2009
    ISBN9781428197879
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    Fabric of America
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    Andro Linklater

    Andro Linklater has been a writer for twenty years. He is the author of The Black Watch (with his father, Eric Linklater); Charlotte Despard: A Life; Compton Mackenzie: A Life (winner of the Scottish Arts Council Biography of the Year Award); Wild People: Travels with Borneo’s Head Hunters; and The Code of Love (Weidenfeld 2000).

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