Quicksilver

Quicksilver

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Author: Rothwell, Nicolas
ISBN: 9781925603163
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 208
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback

Description
Six reveries from acclaimed writer Nicolas Rothwell ranging between subjects near and far, and worlds old and new.

Quicksilver begins 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 Quicksilver Rothwell masterfully takes us in search of the sacred through place and time, in an enchanting reverie of calm wondering.

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