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English
Text Publishing Company
01 September 2015
Exhausted and losing faith, Anglican minister Stephen Heriot abandons his mission in Australia's northwest. Wracked with guilt for his past transgressions, Heriot flees to the vast emptiness of the outback, searching for the islands of the Aboriginal dead. In the soul country of the desert he begins to reflect: was his life's work worthwhile? Are history's crimes also our own? Can any connection to be found in the unrelenting isolation of the land?

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Imprint:   Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   180g
ISBN:   9781925240290
ISBN 10:   1925240290
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for To The Islands

`To the Islands is a deeply moving and compassionate novel whose message and wisdom is still important today, which is why it deserves to be recognised as an important work of Australian literature.' * theconversation.com * `To the Islands is a masterpiece.' * ANZ LitLovers * `Powerful and convincing...An Australian classic.' -- Anthony J. Hassall `It is a rare pleasure for those of us who are already fans to have these works at our disposal...[Stow was] the most talented and celebrated Australian author of the post-White generation.' * Monthly * `It should be taken as no commentary on contemporary Oz Lit that I choose Text's fistful of Randolph Stow reissues for my local favourite(s) during 2015. Their appearance reminds us that a gentle, wise, wounded, and immensely talented poet in prose once lived among us.' * Geordie Williamson, Australian Book Review, Books of the Year 2015 *


  • Winner of Australian Literature Society Gold Medal 1958 (Australia)
  • Winner of Australian Literature Society Gold Medal 1958.
  • Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 1958 (Australia)
  • Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 1958.

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