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Exploration stories are love.
Primarily taking place in 1845, Johann Ulrich Voss, a German explorer, introduces the reader to the Australian outback by setting out across the continent. The story begins with Voss meeting Laura Trevalyan, a young orphaned woman who is new to the colony. Her uncle is funding Voss's expedition.
The story progresses into the outback and is almost the entirety of the book. Voss's expedition travels through both the dry and the wet lands, meeting adversity at every step ...more
Primarily taking place in 1845, Johann Ulrich Voss, a German explorer, introduces the reader to the Australian outback by setting out across the continent. The story begins with Voss meeting Laura Trevalyan, a young orphaned woman who is new to the colony. Her uncle is funding Voss's expedition.
The story progresses into the outback and is almost the entirety of the book. Voss's expedition travels through both the dry and the wet lands, meeting adversity at every step ...more
Absolutely beautiful, even when it's brutal.
Every now and then you come across something that you've never heard of before, you give it a shot, and it turns out to be great, and you feel like you've discovered something. I feel like I rediscovered a lost classic.
It's not a lost classic, of course. People still know about this, and they know of Patrick White, even if he's not as widely read as I think a Nobel laureate probably should be. But if Moby-Dick is the Great American Novel, then this is ...more
Every now and then you come across something that you've never heard of before, you give it a shot, and it turns out to be great, and you feel like you've discovered something. I feel like I rediscovered a lost classic.
It's not a lost classic, of course. People still know about this, and they know of Patrick White, even if he's not as widely read as I think a Nobel laureate probably should be. But if Moby-Dick is the Great American Novel, then this is ...more
Jul 09, 2015
Kai Coates
marked it as to-read
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Erika
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Bepina Vragec
marked it as want-to-read-someday-fic
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Yokk
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