Island Home : A Landscape Memoir

Hamish Hamilton, Australia, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 239 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hamish Hamilton, Australia, 2015. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Edges of dust jacket have moderate bumping. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 'I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is as much a living presence as any character. What is true of his work is also true of his life- from boyhood, his relationship with the world around him - rockpools, seacaves, scrub and swamp - was as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets of the south-east, walking in the high rocky desert fringe, diving at Ningaloo Reef, bobbing in the sea between sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, with its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance, and learned to see landscape as a living process. Island Home is the story of how that relationship with the Australian landscape came to be, and how it has determined his ideas, his writing and his life. It is also a passionate exhortation for all of us to feel the ground beneath our feet. Much more powerfully than a political idea, or an economy, Australia is a physical entity. Where we are defines who we are, in ways we too often forget to our detriment, and the country's. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781926428741. Inventory No: 19110035.. 9781926428741