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“I grew up on the world’s largest island. . . someone like me, who should know better, can forget he’s an islander. Australia the place is constantly overshadowed by Australia the national idea, the economic enterprise.”
Rightly acclaimed Aussie author Tim Winton’s celebration of life on the island continent should be required reading for those so immersed in counting the metaphorical trees of the economic enterprise that they miss the glorious forest of its unique, ancient landscape.
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“I grew up on the world’s largest island. . . someone like me, who should know better, can forget he’s an islander. Australia the place is constantly overshadowed by Australia the national idea, the economic enterprise.”
Rightly acclaimed Aussie author Tim Winton’s celebration of life on the island continent should be required reading for those so immersed in counting the metaphorical trees of the economic enterprise that they miss the glorious forest of its unique, ancient landscape.
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Island Home is like no other memoir I have ever read before. Aussie author Tim Winton’s passion and love for this vast country of ours is absolute – his writing is masterful and evocative, insightful and powerful, and totally beautiful.
From the author’s opening sentence - 'I grew up on the world’s largest island’ – to the very last page, his words instil in us again and again, the beauty of this rugged country and how proud we are to call ourselves Australian.
Thoroughly enjoyable and highly re ...more
From the author’s opening sentence - 'I grew up on the world’s largest island’ – to the very last page, his words instil in us again and again, the beauty of this rugged country and how proud we are to call ourselves Australian.
Thoroughly enjoyable and highly re ...more
No one is as homesick as an Aussie abroad and no one is as eloquent as a Tim Winton writing about his love of home and his relationship with the Aussie landscape.
Beautiful to listen to. I'll come back to this audiobook again. ...more
Beautiful to listen to. I'll come back to this audiobook again. ...more
Evocative, moving and at times personally challenging. As a 'new settler' to Tim's Island Home I am ever more mindful of the blight we have been and continue to be. I only wish this book were a little longer.
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