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Winner, Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Non-Fiction, 2017
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, bringing into play universal questions about the essential nature of the human condition. 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.
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, bringing into play universal questions about the essential nature of the human condition. 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.
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"Rothwell's prose is lucid and absorbing. His enterprise is abundantly subjective; this is its purpose and its strength... Rothwell draws his reader into a shadowy and beautiful realm of thought." -- Times Literary Supplement
"The Czech-Australian journalist Nicolas Rothwell could be described in many ways, but perhaps most economical is as wanderer and wonderer: across territories, eras, peoples and cultural boundaries. This collection of essays takes us to the Australian interior, to the High Tatra in Slovakia, to the ruptures and upheavals of central Europe in the 1980s, and to the prison camps of the Soviet Union: Gorky, Tolstoy, Tarkovsky, Darwin, Lawrence are some of our travelling companions. Its title piece is an astonishingly suggestive and beautiful linking of the life and times of Jewish mystic and cult leader Jacob Frank to the latter-day exploration - or exploitation - by outsiders of the Aboriginal artists of the Western Desert." --Observer
"Nicolas Rothwell is a weird and wonderful writer. In this new book, Quicksilver, he takes the form of nonfiction and turns it into an extraordinary drama of spiritual quests and cultural hauntings." - Australian
"Nicolas Rothwell's Quicksilver also straddles the line between memoir and reportage. He is a worldly yet desert-bound writer, one who can look at a lizard baking on a rock and think of Maxim Gorky and Leo Tolstoy. " --Australian
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"Rothwell's prose is lucid and absorbing. His enterprise is abundantly subjective; this is its purpose and its strength... Rothwell draws his reader into a shadowy and beautiful realm of thought." -- Times Literary Supplement
"The Czech-Australian journalist Nicolas Rothwell could be described in many ways, but perhaps most economical is as wanderer and wonderer: across territories, eras, peoples and cultural boundaries. This collection of essays takes us to the Australian interior, to the High Tatra in Slovakia, to the ruptures and upheavals of central Europe in the 1980s, and to the prison camps of the Soviet Union: Gorky, Tolstoy, Tarkovsky, Darwin, Lawrence are some of our travelling companions. Its title piece is an astonishingly suggestive and beautiful linking of the life and times of Jewish mystic and cult leader Jacob Frank to the latter-day exploration - or exploitation - by outsiders of the Aboriginal artists of the Western Desert." --Observer
"Nicolas Rothwell is a weird and wonderful writer. In this new book, Quicksilver, he takes the form of nonfiction and turns it into an extraordinary drama of spiritual quests and cultural hauntings." - Australian
"Nicolas Rothwell's Quicksilver also straddles the line between memoir and reportage. He is a worldly yet desert-bound writer, one who can look at a lizard baking on a rock and think of Maxim Gorky and Leo Tolstoy. " --Australian
Nicolas Rothwell was educated in Europe, and worked as a foreign correspondent across the US and Europe, covering the Balkan crisis in the 1990s. He is the award-winning author of Heaven and Earth, Wings of the Kite-Hawk and Belomor. He now lives in Darwin, and is the Australian s roving northern correspondent."
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- PublisherText Publishing Company
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1925355578
- ISBN 13 9781925355574
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages200
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