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The Passage

Vance Palmer

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Description:The story of The Passage has been enacted a thousand times since it was published in 1930. In idyllic sub-tropical Queensland The Passage is breathtaking, unspoilt, ripe for exploitation. Only a small fishing community - including Lew Calloway and his family - finds its livelihood there, in harmony with the seasons and the nature of the place. To this tranquility the developer, Vic Osborne, brings the threat of his urban world.The Passage tackles issues that are urgent today: cities versus regions; the rival claims of fragile environments and modern development; the lure of new horizons and the bonds of home.But it is the local people who are the subject of this poetically written novel. People who have become as much part of the natural environment as the mangrove or the swans, but who have to encounter the human world beyond and fit their lives and aspirations to it.Regarded as the foremost Australian 20th century novel.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Passage. To get started finding The Passage, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 208

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Halstead Press

Release: 2001

ISBN: 1875684530

Description: The story of The Passage has been enacted a thousand times since it was published in 1930. In idyllic sub-tropical Queensland The Passage is breathtaking, unspoilt, ripe for exploitation. Only a small fishing community - including Lew Calloway and his family - finds its livelihood there, in harmony with the seasons and the nature of the place. To this tranquility the developer, Vic Osborne, brings the threat of his urban world.The Passage tackles issues that are urgent today: cities versus regions; the rival claims of fragile environments and modern development; the lure of new horizons and the bonds of home.But it is the local people who are the subject of this poetically written novel. People who have become as much part of the natural environment as the mangrove or the swans, but who have to encounter the human world beyond and fit their lives and aspirations to it.Regarded as the foremost Australian 20th century novel.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Passage. To get started finding The Passage, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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