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Nicholas J. Ordinans

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Nicholas J. Ordinans was born in Staffordshire, England and worked as a zoo keeper specialising in the care of wild cats, birds of prey and reptiles. He now lives in the Yarra Valley in Victoria, Australia with his wife, also a former zoo keeper, and writes multi-genre fiction in various formats.

Nicholas is also working on an account of his three decades as a zoo keeper in both England and Australia, which is to be entitled 'Whose Zoo?'. ...more

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New Edition of Jack Schaefer’s novel ‘Shane’

2017 edition of my all time favourite western novel, ‘Shane’ by Jack Schaefer, published by University of New Mexico Press and with an introduction by Robert Nott of the Sante Fe ‘New Mexican’. Nice cover illustration being a re-hued version of “Sentinel of the Plains’ 1906 by William Herbert Dunton. Oil on canvas 39 x 26 in. Nicely done.

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