Round Trip
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
A journey unlike any other awaits in Round Trip, a work by Australian author Miles Little that charts a deeply human passage through illness, mortality, and the unexpected moments of grace that surface along the way. With unflinching honesty and quiet compassion, Little — a distinguished surgeon and writer — draws on both medical expertise and personal reflection to present a narrative that is as much about the lived experience of being unwell as it is about the resilience of the human spirit. Illustrated by the celebrated Australian artist Russell Drysdale, whose evocative line drawings lend the work a raw, elemental quality, Round Trip stands as a rare and affecting collaboration between literary and visual art. Little's prose carries the measured authority of a clinician softened by genuine empathy, crafting a voice that is simultaneously analytical and deeply personal. The work sits at a compelling intersection of memoir, meditation, and social observation, inviting readers to reconsider what it means to face one's own fragility with dignity. Drysdale's illustrations — spare, searching, and unmistakably Australian in character — amplify the text's emotional undercurrent, leaving the reader to wonder where the journey truly ends.
Author: Miles Little
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
A journey unlike any other awaits in Round Trip, a work by Australian author Miles Little that charts a deeply human passage through illness, mortality, and the unexpected moments of grace that surface along the way. With unflinching honesty and quiet compassion, Little — a distinguished surgeon and writer — draws on both medical expertise and personal reflection to present a narrative that is as much about the lived experience of being unwell as it is about the resilience of the human spirit. Illustrated by the celebrated Australian artist Russell Drysdale, whose evocative line drawings lend the work a raw, elemental quality, Round Trip stands as a rare and affecting collaboration between literary and visual art. Little's prose carries the measured authority of a clinician softened by genuine empathy, crafting a voice that is simultaneously analytical and deeply personal. The work sits at a compelling intersection of memoir, meditation, and social observation, inviting readers to reconsider what it means to face one's own fragility with dignity. Drysdale's illustrations — spare, searching, and unmistakably Australian in character — amplify the text's emotional undercurrent, leaving the reader to wonder where the journey truly ends.