- Title:
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To The Islands
- Written by:
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Randolph Stow
- Read by:
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Humphrey Bower
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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7 hours 13 minutes
- Published:
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November 28 2016
- Available Date:
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November 28 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489357625
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Winner AudioFile Earphones Award 2017
‘To the Islands is a deeply moving and compassionate novel
whose message and wisdom is still important today, which is why it deserves to be recognised as an important work of Australian literature.’
The Conversation
A Lear-like tale of madness and destruction, published when Randolph Stow was only twenty-two, To the Islands is compelling and wise - a poetic masterpiece.
Behind the uneasy trees rose the hills, and beyond them again the country of the lost, huge wilderness between this last haunt of civilization and the unpeopled sea.
Exhausted and losing faith, an Anglican minister flees his mission in Australia’s northwest for the vast emptiness of the outback. In the soul country of the desert the old man searches for the islands of the Aboriginal dead, reflecting on past transgressions and on his life’s work.
‘Powerful and convincing … An Australian classic.’
Anthony J. Hassal