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Island Home: A landscape memoir
Tim Winton
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Description for Island Home: A landscape memoir
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; BGLA; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
'I grew up on the world's largest island.' From his childhood, Tim Winton's relationship with the landscape around him - Australia's swamps and bush, rockpools, seacaves and scrub - has been as vital as any other connection. Whether camping in hidden inlets, walking in the high rocky desert fringe, or diving at Ningaloo Reef, Winton has felt the place seep into him - its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance. Island Home is the story of how that relationship with the landscape came to be. Charged with love for the huge, besieging force of ... Read more
'I grew up on the world's largest island.' From his childhood, Tim Winton's relationship with the landscape around him - Australia's swamps and bush, rockpools, seacaves and scrub - has been as vital as any other connection. Whether camping in hidden inlets, walking in the high rocky desert fringe, or diving at Ningaloo Reef, Winton has felt the place seep into him - its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance. Island Home is the story of how that relationship with the landscape came to be. Charged with love for the huge, besieging force of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509816927
SKU
V9781509816927
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Ref
99-5
About Tim Winton
Tim Winton has published twenty-six books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and ... Read more
Reviews for Island Home: A landscape memoir
Winton embraces everything that is good, bad and ugly about this continent and his commitment is contagious
Herald Sun
Winton remains one of the finest place-painters in Australian literature
Jamie Hanson
Guardian (Australia)
A beautiful example of that aesthetic response to the glory and the mystery of nature.' William Yeoman
The West Australian
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Herald Sun
Winton remains one of the finest place-painters in Australian literature
Jamie Hanson
Guardian (Australia)
A beautiful example of that aesthetic response to the glory and the mystery of nature.' William Yeoman
The West Australian
... Read more