The Naked Country
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In the vast, unforgiving wilderness of the Australian outback, The Naked Country by Michael East — the pen name of prolific novelist Morris West — unfolds a taut and gripping tale of survival, violence, and raw human endurance. The novel chronicles the desperate journey of a cattle station owner and his wife who, after a fatal clash with an Aboriginal tribe, find themselves hunted across one of the most brutal landscapes on earth. Pursued relentlessly through the scorched terrain, the characters are stripped of every civilised comfort, forced to confront not only their pursuers but the savage indifference of the land itself. Written with West's characteristic economy and moral intensity, The Naked Country is more than a pursuit narrative — it is a penetrating examination of the collision between colonial settlers and Indigenous Australians, raising uncomfortable questions about justice, land, and the cost of cultural misunderstanding. West's prose is lean and propulsive, yet weighted with a quiet ethical gravity that elevates the thriller beyond genre convention. A novel that burns with the heat of the landscape it inhabits, it leaves the reader questioning who, ultimately, are the civilised — and who are the truly naked.
Author: Michael East [ Morris West]
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, Heinemann
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In the vast, unforgiving wilderness of the Australian outback, The Naked Country by Michael East — the pen name of prolific novelist Morris West — unfolds a taut and gripping tale of survival, violence, and raw human endurance. The novel chronicles the desperate journey of a cattle station owner and his wife who, after a fatal clash with an Aboriginal tribe, find themselves hunted across one of the most brutal landscapes on earth. Pursued relentlessly through the scorched terrain, the characters are stripped of every civilised comfort, forced to confront not only their pursuers but the savage indifference of the land itself. Written with West's characteristic economy and moral intensity, The Naked Country is more than a pursuit narrative — it is a penetrating examination of the collision between colonial settlers and Indigenous Australians, raising uncomfortable questions about justice, land, and the cost of cultural misunderstanding. West's prose is lean and propulsive, yet weighted with a quiet ethical gravity that elevates the thriller beyond genre convention. A novel that burns with the heat of the landscape it inhabits, it leaves the reader questioning who, ultimately, are the civilised — and who are the truly naked.