- Title:
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Island Home: A Landscape Memoir
- Written by:
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Tim Winton
- Read by:
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David Tredinnick
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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4
- Duration:
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5 hours 3 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2015
- Available Date:
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November 01 2015
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489027955
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; Memoirs; Nature
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Bestselling author
Award winning author
Australian author
Winner AudioFile Earphones Award 2016
Bestseller Tim Winton's Island Home is not just a brilliant, moving memoir from one of our finest writers, but a compelling investigation into the way Australia's landscape makes us who we are.
The natural world, in Tim Winton’s novels, is as much a living presence as any character, and what is true of his work is true of his life. From boyhood, his relationship with sea, scrub and swamp has been as vital as blood relations. The country has seeped into him, with its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance.
This is the story of how that relationship came to be, and also a passionate exhortation for all of us to feel the ground beneath our feet. Much more so than any political idea, the physical entity of Australia defines us, in ways we too often forget. Wise, rhapsodic, exalted, Island Home is a beautiful, evocative, sometimes provocative, investigation of how the land makes us who we are.
'Winton's love letter to the vast island continent which has spawned all he has written ... He gives praise to its grandeur in words as John Olsen and Emily Kngwarreye have done in paint.'
Sydney Morning Herald
'Winton remains one of the finest place-painters in Australian literature.'
The Guardian
'Island Home is thus part political manifesto that presents a profound challenge to traditional rural conservatism as well as to the right in general. Conservatives say they love their country. Winton lays bare how very destructive of it some of their actions have been.'
The Monthly