In his wonderfully honest memoir cum manifesto Tim Winton traces how he came to revere the natural world he grew up in – and long to preserve itIsland Home is Tim Winton’s insightful and vibrant testomony to what it is to be a non-indigenous Australian living in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Less than 3% of Australia’s population can trace their ancestry in the country to a time that predates photography. Despite up to 60000 years of continuous human habitation,it is still the landscape that leaves the strongest impression. Australia is “a residence where there is more landscape than culture… Everything we attain... is still overborne and underwritten by the seething tumult of nature. Related: Interview: Tim Winton I was formed by gaps, nurtured in the pauses between people. And over it all an impossibly open sky, or dwarfing everythingContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com