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    Island Home: A Landscape Memoir

    By Tim Winton

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    A wild, rhapsodic celebration of Australia and its landscape, from one of its finest writers
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMilkweed Editions
    Release dateMar 20, 2017
    ISBN9781571319586
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    Island Home: A Landscape Memoir
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    Tim Winton

    Tim Winton has published over twenty books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into many different languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). Active in the environmental movement, he is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. He lives in Western Australia.

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    • 5/5
      I really enjoy this author. This memoir of sorts explains why the author is the way he is, but it also does a good Job of explaining the need for Australians to travel, and the restlessness so many of them seem to have.
    • 4/5
      As Tim Winton said, 'I grew up on the world's largest island.' This ‘island’, Australia, or continent as most people think of it, has had humans living there for thousands of years. These original people had over these millennia to come to an incredibly in-depth understanding of their landscape and how to tread lightly on it. It was a similar relationship to his locality that inspired Tim Winton as a child. Growing up in Karrinyup amongst the coastal landscape of beaches, rock pools and swamps meant for a fantastic childhood, but also the very soul of the land percolated into his very being and became the well of inspiration for his writing.

      His experiences growing up also gave him a passionate desire to see the wildest places of his nation saved for future generations. For the past 200 years, the European immigrants have taken much from the land and the native Aboriginals, and have left it polluted and devastated. Winton has spent time in the UK and other places, but the bond with this hard and frequently dangerous landscape have had a lasting impression on him. This is an enjoyable book to read as Winton is such a talented author and it is a good companion volume to Land’s Edge, which I think is even better than this.
    • 5/5
      This extremely well written book brings the West Australian landscape alive and is a wonderful example of how we are part of our landscape and need to embrace this experience. It is like a series of place-based vignettes where the landscape contributes to the understanding of historical and social issues in each chapter.

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    • 3/5
       A meditation on Australia, the coast and its unique environment... perhaps I expected a little bit more - but only because Winton is one of my favourites.