Storm Of Time
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the raw, turbulent backdrop of early colonial Australia, Storm of Time is Eleanor Dark's magnificent second installment in her landmark The Timeless Land trilogy, chronicling the lives of convicts, free settlers, soldiers, and Aboriginal peoples as they navigate the fragile and often brutal experiment of a nascent colony struggling to define itself. The novel spans the years following the First Fleet's arrival, drawing together a vivid tapestry of characters — both historical and fictional — whose ambitions, fears, and loves are tested by the unforgiving rhythms of a land that refuses to be easily tamed. Dark writes with rare authority and lyrical precision, weaving political intrigue, personal tragedy, and cultural collision into a narrative of extraordinary scope and depth. Her unflinching portrayal of the dispossession of the Eora people stands alongside intimate portraits of colonial power and survival, rendering Storm of Time as much a moral reckoning as it is a gripping historical saga. A work of profound literary significance in the Australian canon, it leaves the reader asking whether the ideals that drove the colony's founders could ever truly take root in such storm-wracked soil.
Author: Eleanor Dark
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Collins - Sydney
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the raw, turbulent backdrop of early colonial Australia, Storm of Time is Eleanor Dark's magnificent second installment in her landmark The Timeless Land trilogy, chronicling the lives of convicts, free settlers, soldiers, and Aboriginal peoples as they navigate the fragile and often brutal experiment of a nascent colony struggling to define itself. The novel spans the years following the First Fleet's arrival, drawing together a vivid tapestry of characters — both historical and fictional — whose ambitions, fears, and loves are tested by the unforgiving rhythms of a land that refuses to be easily tamed. Dark writes with rare authority and lyrical precision, weaving political intrigue, personal tragedy, and cultural collision into a narrative of extraordinary scope and depth. Her unflinching portrayal of the dispossession of the Eora people stands alongside intimate portraits of colonial power and survival, rendering Storm of Time as much a moral reckoning as it is a gripping historical saga. A work of profound literary significance in the Australian canon, it leaves the reader asking whether the ideals that drove the colony's founders could ever truly take root in such storm-wracked soil.