To the Islands: Text Classics

Author(s): Randolph Stow

Fiction

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. 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.

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Winner of Australian Literature Society Gold Medal 1958 and Miles Franklin Literary Award 1958.

General Fields

  • : 9781925240290
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : 0.182
  • : August 2015
  • : 198mm X 131mm X 16mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 240
  • : Paperback
  • : Randolph Stow