Voss
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A towering achievement in Australian literature, Voss is a sweeping historical novel that chronicles the doomed overland expedition of Johann Ulrich Voss, a German explorer who attempts to cross the Australian continent in the 1840s. Patrick White presents a profound psychological portrait of obsession, pride, and spiritual transformation, drawing a haunting parallel between Voss's physical journey into the unforgiving outback and his intense, telepathic relationship with Laura Trevelyan, a young woman he leaves behind in Sydney. Written with dense, lyrical prose, the novel argues that the true wilderness is interior — a landscape of the soul as vast and merciless as the Australian desert itself. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, White illustrates how human ambition, when stripped of all pretence by the brutality of nature, reveals both the sublime and the catastrophic in equal measure.
Author: Patrick White
Format: Paperback
Published: 1966, Penguin Modern Classics
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A towering achievement in Australian literature, Voss is a sweeping historical novel that chronicles the doomed overland expedition of Johann Ulrich Voss, a German explorer who attempts to cross the Australian continent in the 1840s. Patrick White presents a profound psychological portrait of obsession, pride, and spiritual transformation, drawing a haunting parallel between Voss's physical journey into the unforgiving outback and his intense, telepathic relationship with Laura Trevelyan, a young woman he leaves behind in Sydney. Written with dense, lyrical prose, the novel argues that the true wilderness is interior — a landscape of the soul as vast and merciless as the Australian desert itself. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, White illustrates how human ambition, when stripped of all pretence by the brutality of nature, reveals both the sublime and the catastrophic in equal measure.