Beneath An Ardent Sun: A Novel
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: presumed 1st edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Worn boards with some soiling. Yellowed spine. Bumped corners. Binding slightly shaky. Age toning and foxing on prelims. Otherwise clean text.
"Beneath an Ardent Sun" is a work of Australian colonial fiction that transports readers to the sun-scorched landscapes of the Australian interior, drawing on Sir Frank Fox's deep familiarity with the continent he left behind to construct a narrative that captures the particular texture of Australian life, the tension between colonial ambition and the demands of an unyielding land, and the human dramas that unfold when men and women of the Empire press themselves against a country that refuses to be tamed on British terms.
Author: Frank Fox
Format: Hardback
Published: 1923, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
Genre: Fiction
Edition: presumed 1st edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Worn boards with some soiling. Yellowed spine. Bumped corners. Binding slightly shaky. Age toning and foxing on prelims. Otherwise clean text.
"Beneath an Ardent Sun" is a work of Australian colonial fiction that transports readers to the sun-scorched landscapes of the Australian interior, drawing on Sir Frank Fox's deep familiarity with the continent he left behind to construct a narrative that captures the particular texture of Australian life, the tension between colonial ambition and the demands of an unyielding land, and the human dramas that unfold when men and women of the Empire press themselves against a country that refuses to be tamed on British terms.