Author(s): Peter Byrne

Biography

Peter Byrne has written a book about his forty years as a surveyor. Yet it is not a book about surveying. Written as vignettes, the shortest being just one line, together with some longer essays and reflections, Geometer Dreams is about people, their interactions and the circumstances they met. The story settings range from the Pilbara district of Western Australia to the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, from Borneo through Zimbabwe to Brazil and the United Nations. His experiences range from being hailed as a man of truth across an airport carousel to a torturous project in Sumatra.