The day of creation

J. G. Ballard

first published 1987 Grafton, 1988 287 pages

In parched Port-la-Nouvelle in Central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by a bulldozer and water wells up, spreading until it becomes an enormous river. With the once arid land now abounding in birds and beasts, the obsessed Mallory forges upriver, clashing with hostile factions in...

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Editions we hold

The day of creation edition · 2002 · Picador USA · 253 pages
The day of creation edition · 2001 · Flamingo · 287 pages
The Day of Creation edition · 1999 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 256 pages · 9780374525774
The day of creation edition · 1989 · Collier Books · 253 pages
The day of creation edition · 1988 · Farrar, Straus, Giroux · 253 pages
The day of creation. edition · 1988 · Grafton · 287 pages
The day ofcreation. edition · 1988 · Charnwood · 384 pages
The day of creation. edition · 1987 · Gollancz
The day of creation edition · 1987 · Lester & Orpen Dennys · 254 pages
The day of creation edition · 1987 · Gollancz · 254 pages

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