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"Storytellers and bards have always been with us from the mists of deepest antiquity to the present. Alistair Brooks is one of the more recent in this long line of literary artisans. In ""First Fly Last Fly"", his fourth book, he once again plies his spell binding, carefully crafted use of words. In both narrative and rhyme he describes more of those evocative epics and sagas the Muses have seen fit to weave into his very long, event-filled life. Highly personal as they are, his experiences in this latest book are portrayed in fascinating tales of the mystical and the mundane, as well as the magical, heroic, improbable, murderous, masterful, comic, curious, musical, meditative, and, yes, the miraculous too."

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"Alistair Brooks is an English-born Australian who, very early on in life, found that he suffered from that serious, and not infrequently fatal, addiction known as ""The Explorer's Itch"". It is a condition that has in no way been eased by him always having been intensely curious about pretty much everything, from the seemingly mundane and tiny, to the incredible and vast, the miraculous and, far beyond, into the mysterious and the inexplicable. It is a condition that has been further spurred on by serendipity; that faculty of making fortunate discoveries quite by accident and, in the process, having adventure-filled opportunities present themselves in the most unexpected, fortuitous and rewarding ways.​Now, even in his late-seventies, Alistair still finds he is unable, indeed wholly unwilling, to counter any of the addictive symptoms of his Explorer's Itch. Instead, like many others who have learned to live with this totally incurable condition, he has found that writing books about his experiences, is the most satisfying and refreshing way of unburdening himself."

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