The Timeless Land
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the edge of a vast and ancient continent, two worlds collide with seismic force — The Timeless Land chronicles the first years of British colonisation in Australia, weaving together the fates of the Eora people, the convicts, and the officers of the First Fleet as they struggle to forge — or resist — a new order on land that has known human story for tens of thousands of years. Eleanor Dark presents this epochal confrontation through multiple perspectives, grounding the drama in the personal lives of Governor Arthur Phillip, his reluctant charges, and the proud Aboriginal man Bennelong, whose world is being irrevocably unmade before his eyes. The novel captures both the awe and the violence of encounter, rendering the vast Australian landscape not merely as backdrop, but as a living, enduring presence that ultimately outlasts the ambitions of any nation. First published in 1941, The Timeless Land stands as one of the great achievements of Australian literature, remarkable for its moral complexity and its sympathetic, ahead-of-its-time portrayal of Indigenous Australian experience. Dark's prose moves with the weight and rhythm of the land itself — measured, luminous, and unsparing — and her structural ambition in giving equal voice to coloniser and colonised anticipates debates that would not enter mainstream discourse for decades. The first volume of a celebrated trilogy, it leaves the reader with an unsettling question: when a land this old absorbs yet another chapter of human striving, who truly claims whom?
Author: Eleanor Dark
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the edge of a vast and ancient continent, two worlds collide with seismic force — The Timeless Land chronicles the first years of British colonisation in Australia, weaving together the fates of the Eora people, the convicts, and the officers of the First Fleet as they struggle to forge — or resist — a new order on land that has known human story for tens of thousands of years. Eleanor Dark presents this epochal confrontation through multiple perspectives, grounding the drama in the personal lives of Governor Arthur Phillip, his reluctant charges, and the proud Aboriginal man Bennelong, whose world is being irrevocably unmade before his eyes. The novel captures both the awe and the violence of encounter, rendering the vast Australian landscape not merely as backdrop, but as a living, enduring presence that ultimately outlasts the ambitions of any nation. First published in 1941, The Timeless Land stands as one of the great achievements of Australian literature, remarkable for its moral complexity and its sympathetic, ahead-of-its-time portrayal of Indigenous Australian experience. Dark's prose moves with the weight and rhythm of the land itself — measured, luminous, and unsparing — and her structural ambition in giving equal voice to coloniser and colonised anticipates debates that would not enter mainstream discourse for decades. The first volume of a celebrated trilogy, it leaves the reader with an unsettling question: when a land this old absorbs yet another chapter of human striving, who truly claims whom?