Quicksilver

Author(s): Nicolas Rothwell

Essays

Quicksilverbegins on a quiet day in contemplation of a lizard deep in the heart of the outback but quickly moves to the Russia of Tolstoy and Gorky, and on to other lands and times, bringing into play universal questions about the essential nature of the human condition.Rothwell's chief subject is always the inland- the mystic Kurangara cult that flourished in the Kimberley; the story of the Western Desert artists, their works and their eventual fate; the tracks across the wilderness of Colonel Warburton and George Grey; the bush dreams and intuitions of D. H. Lawrence and the landscape word-portraits by the great biographer of nature Eric Rolls.In QuicksilverRothwell masterfully takes us in search of the sacred through place and time, in an enchanting reverie of calm wondering.


Product Information

Winner of Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Non-Fiction 2017 (Australia).

Nicolas Rothwell is the award-winning author of Quicksilver, Belomor, Heaven & Earth, Wings of the Kite-Hawk, Another Country, The Red Highway and Journeys to the Interior. He was a senior writer for the Australian.

General Fields

  • : 9781925603163
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : 0.154
  • : July 2017
  • : 197mm X 129mm X 17mm
  • : Australia
  • : July 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Nicolas Rothwell
  • : Paperback
  • : 1017
  • : English
  • : 919.41
  • : 208
  • : DNF