Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naive young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. Voss sets out to cross the continent, and as hardships, mutiny and betrayal whittle away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to Laura gradually increases. Laura, waiting in Sydney, moves through the months of separation as if they were a dream and Voss the only reality
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Австралия, 1840-е годы. Исследователь Иоганн Фосс и шестеро его спутников отправляются в смертельно опасную экспедицию с амбициозной целью – составить первую подробную карту Зеленого континента. В Сиднее он оставляет горячо любимую женщину – молодую аристократку Лору Тревельян, для которой жизнь с этого момента распадается на «до» и «после» • Фосс знал, что это будет трудный изматывающий поход. По безводной раскаленной пустыне, где каждая капля воды – драгоценность, а позже – под проливными дождями в гнетущем молчании враждебного австралийского буша, сквозь территории аборигенов, считающих белых пришельцев своей законной добычей. Он все это знал, но он и представить себе не мог, как все эти трудности изменят участников экспедиции, не исключая его самого
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Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision: his sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion and the passionate illusions of his mistress, Hero Pavloussi. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion
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Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment
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A bold, visionary story of four intertwining lives from the Nobel prizewinning novelist • WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MALOUF • Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu, Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil, all four have been independently damaged and discarded. Now in one shared vision they find themselves bound together, understanding the possibility of redemption
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Уайт-спирит предназначен для разбавления алкидных лаков, эмалей и масляных красок
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