A Fringe Of Leaves
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
In the untamed wilderness of nineteenth-century Australia, a shipwrecked Englishwoman named Ellen Roxburgh is stripped of every civilised comfort and cast into a brutal world of survival, captivity, and startling self-discovery. A Fringe of Leaves chronicles her harrowing ordeal among Aboriginal people following a shipwreck off the Queensland coast — a journey that forces her to confront the vast chasm between the veneer of colonial respectability and the raw, instinctual nature beneath it. Drawing on the historical account of Eliza Fraser, Nobel laureate Patrick White constructs a narrative of extraordinary psychological and moral depth, one that unflinchingly interrogates identity, class, and the fragility of civilisation itself. White's prose is dense, luminous, and uncompromising — a style that transforms a tale of physical endurance into a profound meditation on the human soul. A Fringe of Leaves stands as one of the great works of Australian literature, and its final, quietly devastating revelation will linger long after the last page is turned.
Author: Patrick White
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
In the untamed wilderness of nineteenth-century Australia, a shipwrecked Englishwoman named Ellen Roxburgh is stripped of every civilised comfort and cast into a brutal world of survival, captivity, and startling self-discovery. A Fringe of Leaves chronicles her harrowing ordeal among Aboriginal people following a shipwreck off the Queensland coast — a journey that forces her to confront the vast chasm between the veneer of colonial respectability and the raw, instinctual nature beneath it. Drawing on the historical account of Eliza Fraser, Nobel laureate Patrick White constructs a narrative of extraordinary psychological and moral depth, one that unflinchingly interrogates identity, class, and the fragility of civilisation itself. White's prose is dense, luminous, and uncompromising — a style that transforms a tale of physical endurance into a profound meditation on the human soul. A Fringe of Leaves stands as one of the great works of Australian literature, and its final, quietly devastating revelation will linger long after the last page is turned.