To the Islands

by Randolph Stow

Book Overview

Originally published in 1958, this classic Australian novel won its 22-year-old author the Miles Franklin Award and the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society. Set in the north-west of Australia in 1957, the story concerns a Christian missionary who has lost his faith. This edition presents the revised version that Stow produced in 1981. Also includes Stow's introduction to the revised edition, dated 1991, and a new foreword by Anthony J...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080087739X
• ISBN13: 9780800877392
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Company
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.