The Passage
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.
Edition: new ed., reset
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the rugged Queensland coastline in the early twentieth century, The Passage is a landmark of Australian literature that chronicles the life of Lew Callaway, a fisherman of extraordinary vitality whose connection to the sea and the land shapes every facet of his existence. Vance Palmer constructs a world of quiet, sun-bleached intensity, where the rhythms of tidal work and community life govern the fates of men and women in equal measure, and where the encroachment of modernity threatens to unravel bonds that have taken generations to form. Palmer, one of Australia's most significant nationalist writers of the mid-twentieth century, presents in this novel a meditation on identity, belonging, and the tension between individual freedom and communal responsibility. His prose is understated yet deeply observant, capturing the vernacular spirit of coastal Queensland with an authenticity that few contemporaries could match. The Passage stands as a cornerstone of the Australian canon — a novel that asks, with quiet urgency, what it truly means to be rooted in a place, and what is lost when that rootedness is torn away.
Author: Vance Palmer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne
Genre: Australian history
Edition: new ed., reset
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the rugged Queensland coastline in the early twentieth century, The Passage is a landmark of Australian literature that chronicles the life of Lew Callaway, a fisherman of extraordinary vitality whose connection to the sea and the land shapes every facet of his existence. Vance Palmer constructs a world of quiet, sun-bleached intensity, where the rhythms of tidal work and community life govern the fates of men and women in equal measure, and where the encroachment of modernity threatens to unravel bonds that have taken generations to form. Palmer, one of Australia's most significant nationalist writers of the mid-twentieth century, presents in this novel a meditation on identity, belonging, and the tension between individual freedom and communal responsibility. His prose is understated yet deeply observant, capturing the vernacular spirit of coastal Queensland with an authenticity that few contemporaries could match. The Passage stands as a cornerstone of the Australian canon — a novel that asks, with quiet urgency, what it truly means to be rooted in a place, and what is lost when that rootedness is torn away.