Island home : a landscape memoir
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Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Main Library - Adult
828.914 Win
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
828.914 Win
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Southside - Adult
828.914 Win
1 available

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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2017.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English

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General Note
A reissue of the edition published in Melbourne, Vic. (Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015)--from CIP data.
General Note
Reprint. Originally published: Melbourne, Vic. : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239).
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"--,Provided by publisher.
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"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"--,Provided by publisher.

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