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Auteur: Patrick White
paperbackEngels160 blz.9781784274986
10-3-2026
The book is a one-stop shop for ecologists undertaking site surveys for otters. It presents a natural progression of survey types and describes how to carry out initial field-sign surveys, selection of sites for camera-trapping, camera-trap deployment and interpretation of data. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099583677
2-1-2014
Happy Valley is a place of dreams and secrets, of snow and ice and wind. In this remote little town, perched in its landscape of desolate beauty, everybody has a story to tell about loss and longing and loneliness, about their passion to escape. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099578345
2-1-2014
Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. In wartime Australia, these two children form an extraordinary bond as they negotiate the dangers of life as strangers abandoned on the far side of the world. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099458210
15-6-1995
Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099324218
16-11-1995
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099324713
21-7-1994
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANESet in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099324317
5-9-1996
To hesitate on the edge of life or to plunge in and risk change -this is the dilemma explored in THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. Mrs Standish, ageing but still beautiful, is drawn into secret liaisons, while her daughter Eden experiments openly and impulsively with left-wing politics and love affairs. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099324010
27-10-1994
With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. On the journey home, Theodora finds there is little to choose between the reality of illusion and the illusion of reality. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099324416
15-6-1995
Arthur and Waldo Brown were born twins and destined never to to grow away from each other. They spent their childhood together. Their youth together. Middle-age together. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099324515
27-10-1994
Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099324119
16-11-1995
Eleven stories to which Patrick White brings his immense understanding of the urges which lie just beneath the facade of ordinary human relationships, especially those between men and women. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099752318
1-10-1998
In this remarkable self-portrait Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. Meer
GebondenEngels9781841593470
12-9-2012
The eponymous hero, Johann Voss, is based on Ludwig Leichhardt, the nineteenth-century German explorer and naturalist who had already conducted several major expeditions into the Australian outback before making an ambitious attempt to cross the entire continent from east to west in 1848. Meer