Island Home: A Landscape Memoir
by Winton, Tim
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1926428749
- ISBN 13
- 9781926428741
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, Sydney, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Fifth impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 240 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. '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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781926428741. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10448. . 9781926428741
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10448
- Title
- Island Home: A Landscape Memoir
- Author
- Winton, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1926428749
- ISBN 13
- 9781926428741
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- BZDB137 memoir, landscape, australia, western australia, Biography & Autobiography; Australia; Unbranded EAN: 9781926428741 Winton, Tim Island Home: A Landscape Memoir
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