The Generations Of Men
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the rugged pastoral landscape of nineteenth-century Queensland, a family's story becomes the story of a nation. The Generations of Men is Judith Wright's richly researched and lovingly rendered account of her pioneering ancestors, the Wrights and the So merevilles, who carved a life from the unforgiving Australian frontier — a chronicle of ambition, endurance, and the deep, complicated bonds between settlers and the land they claimed. Wright, celebrated as one of Australia's most distinguished poets, brings her formidable literary gifts to this work of family history and national memoir, weaving personal narrative with a broader meditation on colonisation, identity, and belonging. Her prose is precise yet luminous, capturing both the grandeur of the Australian landscape and the quiet dignity of ordinary lives lived against extraordinary odds. Illustrated by Alison Forbes, this volume stands as an essential work in the canon of Australian historical writing — and leaves the reader asking what it truly means to call a land your own.
Author: Judith Wright
Format: Hardback
Published: 1959, Oxford University Press
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the rugged pastoral landscape of nineteenth-century Queensland, a family's story becomes the story of a nation. The Generations of Men is Judith Wright's richly researched and lovingly rendered account of her pioneering ancestors, the Wrights and the So merevilles, who carved a life from the unforgiving Australian frontier — a chronicle of ambition, endurance, and the deep, complicated bonds between settlers and the land they claimed. Wright, celebrated as one of Australia's most distinguished poets, brings her formidable literary gifts to this work of family history and national memoir, weaving personal narrative with a broader meditation on colonisation, identity, and belonging. Her prose is precise yet luminous, capturing both the grandeur of the Australian landscape and the quiet dignity of ordinary lives lived against extraordinary odds. Illustrated by Alison Forbes, this volume stands as an essential work in the canon of Australian historical writing — and leaves the reader asking what it truly means to call a land your own.