Country And Calling
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Minimal wear around edges of jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Ex-library with usual markings (library stamp from A.S. Butler's Library, The Hatfield Polytechnic). Binding condition: Good.
Few historians have led lives as richly textured as Sir William Keith Hancock, and Country and Calling stands as his candid and eloquent account of that life — a memoir that bridges the vast distances between colonial Australia and the grand intellectual centres of Europe. Hancock chronicles his formative years in rural Victoria, his Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and his subsequent rise to become one of the most distinguished historians of the twentieth century, weaving personal narrative with acute observations on the nature of scholarship, identity, and belonging. The work is far more than a professional autobiography; it is a meditation on what it means to be an Australian intellectual operating on a world stage, caught between the pull of the antipodean homeland and the gravitational force of British academic culture. Written with the clarity and measured elegance that defined Hancock's scholarly prose, the memoir illuminates the tensions of empire, the vocation of the historian, and the lifelong negotiation between country — the land of one's birth — and calling — the discipline that shapes one's destiny. For anyone curious about the making of a great historical mind, the final pages leave an indelible impression.
Author: W. K. Hancock
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Faber and Faber Ltd
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Minimal wear around edges of jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Ex-library with usual markings (library stamp from A.S. Butler's Library, The Hatfield Polytechnic). Binding condition: Good.
Few historians have led lives as richly textured as Sir William Keith Hancock, and Country and Calling stands as his candid and eloquent account of that life — a memoir that bridges the vast distances between colonial Australia and the grand intellectual centres of Europe. Hancock chronicles his formative years in rural Victoria, his Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and his subsequent rise to become one of the most distinguished historians of the twentieth century, weaving personal narrative with acute observations on the nature of scholarship, identity, and belonging. The work is far more than a professional autobiography; it is a meditation on what it means to be an Australian intellectual operating on a world stage, caught between the pull of the antipodean homeland and the gravitational force of British academic culture. Written with the clarity and measured elegance that defined Hancock's scholarly prose, the memoir illuminates the tensions of empire, the vocation of the historian, and the lifelong negotiation between country — the land of one's birth — and calling — the discipline that shapes one's destiny. For anyone curious about the making of a great historical mind, the final pages leave an indelible impression.