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Hugh Allan
Hugh Allan
I grew up in South Africa's gold mining area around Johannesburg. Two books that I read in my teens had a huge influence on my life and my writing: Exploration Fawcett, by Colonel Fawcett, and The White South (set in Antarctica) by Hammond Innes. Before coming to Australia in 1966 I explored Southern Africa and its game parks, and after arriving in Australia I explored this wonderful land, doing a six-month long 'circumnavigation' in my ten year-old Holden FE station wagon, working here and there along the 17,000 km journey. Afterwards I spent 3 month working in Hobart. This year, 2019, brings up my 50th year of living in Sydney.
I have had a life-long love-affair with Antarctica and its explorers and have been to the Antarctic Peninsula twice.
FAWQ has published 22 of my poems and articles in Scope and two in the 95th Anniversary Anthology, A lifetime of Words.
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New South Wales
Action/Adventure, Poetry
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High Latitude for Dying
Action/Adventure
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Tanya's pursuit of her rapist and his band of terrorists takes her to the Antarctic Peninsula. She is accompanied by her brother, sister-in-law and a friend and Antarctic expert. Shoot-outs and sea-chases bring the foursome to bloody confrontations with the enemy.

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Five short stories: A parody on spy stories; A tale of exploration and deification in the Amazon jungle; A space jaunt from Antarctica to Jupiter; A short thriller; a memoir, being an account of the author's car trip around Australia in 1967, with photos.