{"product_id":"island-home-a-landscape-memoir-paperback","title":"Island Home: A Landscape Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim Winton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe writer explores his beloved Australia in a memoir that is \"a delight to read [and] a call to arms . . . It beseeches us to revere the land that sustains us\" (\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom boyhood, Tim Winton's relationship with the world around him?rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp?has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into him, and learned to see landscape as a living process. In \u003ci\u003eIsland Home\u003c\/i\u003e, Winton brings this landscape?and its influence on the island nation's identity and art?vividly to life through personal accounts and environmental history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWise, rhapsodic, exalted?in language as unexpected and wild as the landscape it describes?\u003ci\u003eIsland Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, moving portrait of Australia from one of its finest writers, the prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBreath\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEyrie\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Hut\u003c\/i\u003e, among other acclaimed titles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Winton\u003c\/b\u003e has published twenty-six books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, \u003ci\u003eAn Open Swimmer\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for \u003ci\u003eShallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBreath\u003c\/i\u003e) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for \u003ci\u003eThe Riders\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDirt Music\u003c\/i\u003e). His fiction published in the United States includes \u003ci\u003eEyrie\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBreath\u003c\/i\u003e (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014 and 2008) and \u003ci\u003eDirt Music\u003c\/i\u003e (Scribner, 2002). He lives in Western Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 09, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771459207456,"sku":"9781571311245","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a68e0f3635b37dc452f9e8bbd028ad3c.webp?v=1780386956","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/island-home-a-landscape-memoir-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}