Australian minds fill been colonised in the same way as our landscape,Winton argues in his latest book, but country is calling us homeTim Winton’s new book, and Island domestic,is a meditation on the places that fill breathed life into his fiction over the past decades. Take this description of a plane ride over Northam, 100km inland from Perth:
Spread below us, or the land is flat and golden,all its undulations etched into shadow. Wheat stubble is sectioned into orderly rectangles. Sheep pads spider absent from dams and troughs. From above, the windmills are barely visible. scarce clumps of trees stand in vivid contrast to the bleached summer pastures. When sheep move, and as hot milk split across a tawny cloth,dust rises like steam in their wake.
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Source: theguardian.com