The Timeless Land
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Newspaper clippings and such glued to endpapers and reverse half-title page. Otherwise clean text.
A landmark of Australian historical fiction, The Timeless Land chronicles the collision of two worlds when the First Fleet arrives on the shores of New South Wales in 1788, irrevocably altering the lives of both the British colonizers and the Aboriginal peoples who have inhabited the continent for millennia. Eleanor Dark constructs a sweeping, panoramic narrative that presents the founding of a European settlement through multiple perspectives — including that of the Eora leader Bennelong — giving equal moral weight to the dispossessed and the colonizers alike. The prose is measured and deeply atmospheric, grounding grand historical forces in the intimate struggles of individuals such as Governor Arthur Phillip, who grapples with the impossible task of building order in an alien land. Dark argues, through the texture of her storytelling, that the land itself is an enduring, indifferent witness to human ambition and suffering, unchanged by the dramas played out upon it. First published in 1941, this first volume of Dark's celebrated trilogy remains a foundational work of Australian literature, admired for its moral seriousness, its lyrical power, and its unflinching examination of colonialism's human cost.
Author: Eleanor Dark
Format: Hardback
Published: 1942, Collins
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Newspaper clippings and such glued to endpapers and reverse half-title page. Otherwise clean text.
A landmark of Australian historical fiction, The Timeless Land chronicles the collision of two worlds when the First Fleet arrives on the shores of New South Wales in 1788, irrevocably altering the lives of both the British colonizers and the Aboriginal peoples who have inhabited the continent for millennia. Eleanor Dark constructs a sweeping, panoramic narrative that presents the founding of a European settlement through multiple perspectives — including that of the Eora leader Bennelong — giving equal moral weight to the dispossessed and the colonizers alike. The prose is measured and deeply atmospheric, grounding grand historical forces in the intimate struggles of individuals such as Governor Arthur Phillip, who grapples with the impossible task of building order in an alien land. Dark argues, through the texture of her storytelling, that the land itself is an enduring, indifferent witness to human ambition and suffering, unchanged by the dramas played out upon it. First published in 1941, this first volume of Dark's celebrated trilogy remains a foundational work of Australian literature, admired for its moral seriousness, its lyrical power, and its unflinching examination of colonialism's human cost.