Down House
Revisiting Tasmania
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1988
Chatto & Windus (Verlag)
978-0-7011-3253-8 (ISBN)
Chatto & Windus (Verlag)
978-0-7011-3253-8 (ISBN)
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A personal account of Conrad's return to his homeland after 20 years. He tells of his upbringing and describes the island's rivers, mountains and rain forests. During his stay he visits a Greek temple in the bush, debates with a team of murderers at a prison and examines ancient rock carvings.
This is a personal account of Conrad's return to his Tasmanian homeland after 20 years. He tells of his upbringing there and describes the island's rivers, mountains and rain forests. During his stay he visits a Greek temple in the bush, travels through logging camps, tries to decipher a cliff of ancient rock carvings and is defeated in a debate with a team of murderers at the State's maximum security prison. Conrad's books include "The Victorian Treasure House", "Imagining America", "The Art of the City", "The Everyman History of Literature" and "A Song of Love and Death - The Meaning of Opera". He also writes reviews regularly for "The Observer", the "TLS" and "Harpers and Queen".
This is a personal account of Conrad's return to his Tasmanian homeland after 20 years. He tells of his upbringing there and describes the island's rivers, mountains and rain forests. During his stay he visits a Greek temple in the bush, travels through logging camps, tries to decipher a cliff of ancient rock carvings and is defeated in a debate with a team of murderers at the State's maximum security prison. Conrad's books include "The Victorian Treasure House", "Imagining America", "The Art of the City", "The Everyman History of Literature" and "A Song of Love and Death - The Meaning of Opera". He also writes reviews regularly for "The Observer", the "TLS" and "Harpers and Queen".
Emohruo; journeys - on the road, on the mountain, on the farm, on the water, in the air, under ground; an archaeological dig - Electropolis, ghost story, the Van Demonians, "last of the Tasmanians", Tasmaniosaurus, Tassie; spirits of place - the naming of places, devils and holy visitors, garden gods, little England or Wild West?; imagining Tasmania - Cabbala, scenic schemes, seeing Tasmania, I find a cave, "so men write poems in Australia"; at home and away - in the family, the main land.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.10.1988 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | maps |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 546 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7011-3253-1 / 0701132531 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7011-3253-8 / 9780701132538 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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