Island Home: A Landscape MemoirThe writer explores his beloved Australia in a memoir that is “a delight to read [and] a call to arms . . . It beseeches us to revere the land that sustains us” (Guardian). From boyhood, Tim 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, the prize-winning author of Breath, Eyrie, and The Shepherd’s Hut, among other acclaimed titles. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal Albany ancient beaches beneath birds bush cave century Chapman climb Cloudstreet coast coastal colonial continent coral creatures culture decades desert despite dirt distance Dodnun ecosystems environmental European everything experience feel felt fish forest Geoff Gallop Georgiana Molloy Gibb River Road gilgies Gwelup hard human imagine indigenous Island Home Judith Wright kids kilometres Kimberley knew Lake Eyre land landforms landscape later learnt limestone live looked metres mind Mowaljarlai Mowanjum natural world Neil Murray never newcomers Ngarinyin Ningaloo Ningaloo Reef Noongar painting passionate past perhaps Perth plain political precious Rachel Bell reef River rock sand secret seemed sense Serventy settlement settlers Shark species spinifex Stephen Hopper story strange surfing Sydney there’s things TIM WINTON track traditional trees turtle underfoot vehicle Vincent Serventy Wandjina watch Western Australia whales wild wind writing