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― The Book of Whispers ―

Thomas Lapperre

The Uncertainty

The Book of Whispers

First published in the Netherlands

by Thomas Lapperre on 8^th of August 2008

88 copies

Copyright © Thomas Lapperre 2008

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ISBN  978-90-813351-1-9

Set in 8,5/10/14 Times New Roman 188 pages

Printed in paperback by

Grafisch Centrum Noorderkwartier

Cover Art by Ronald Zeeman

Illustrators

Hans van Loon (pg 64, 86);

René Waling (pg 145);

Thomas Lapperre (pg 21, 30, 115, 165)

Picture on page 188, original title: The lone poplar in the middle of a salt lake, shot at XingJiang in China, 2006, used by kind permission of Choi Chi Chio. (roychoi07@yahoo.com.cn).

Special thanks go out to Maria van Vlijmen and Frank Buschman for their help.

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