Island home
a landscape memoir
First US edition.
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Word Count
60,250 words, Guess
Page Count
241 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26923865M
- ISBN-139781571311245
- ISBN-101571311246
- OCLC Control Number954430026
- OCLC Control Number992827490
and 3 more
- Internet Archiveislandhomelandsc0000wint_j3r0
- Library of Congress Control Number2017002185
- AmazonB06XRY94ZR
Classifications
- DDC828/.91403
- DDCB
- LCCPR9619.3.W585 Z95 2017
and 2 more
- LCCPR9619.3.W585 Z46 2017
- LCCPR9619.3.W585Z95
Description
"A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world around him-rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp-has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, and learned to see landscape as a living process. In Island Home, Winton brings this landscape-and its influence on the island nation's identity and art-vividly to life through personal accounts and environmental history. Wise, rhapsodic, exalted-in language as unexpected and wild as the landscape it describes-Island Home is a brilliant, moving portrait of Australia from one of its finest writers"-- "For over thirty years, the author has written novels in which the natural world is as much a living presence as any character. In this beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir, he explores Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped him and his writing"--
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