All About Books discussion

Week 77 brings us upto 1957 with Voss by Australia's first writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White.

You can read the Guardian's article here. This love story is based (at least in part) on the story of Ludwig Leichhardt, the Prussian naturalist who made several explorations of the Australian interior in the mid-1840s. Leichhardt aimed to pioneer an overland route from Brisbane to Perth but he vanished without trace in the infinite vastness of the interior.

I have not only not read this, but have never even heard of it before. It does sound interesting!

I'm currently doing a Coursera online course on Australian literature. Patrick White comes up later in the course.

Never heard of it.

I've not heard of this one.

Pink wrote: "Never heard of it."

Shirley wrote: "I've not heard of this one."

Leslie wrote: "I have not only not read this, but have never even heard of it before. It does sound interesting!"

Same here!

I hadn't heard of this book or author either