Capricornia - (Filmed as Australia)

Informationen zum Autor Xavier Herbert was born in Port Hedland, WA, in 1901. He was educated there and in Fremantle, qualifying as a pharmacist. After World War I he travelled in Australia, reaching Darwin in 1927. There he worked as a railway fettler and visited the South Pacific, experiences that informed his first novel, Capricornia, first published in 1938.

Product details

• Authors: Xavier Herbert, Herbert Xavier
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.12.2008
• EAN: 9780007311569
• ISBN: 978-0-00-731156-9
• No. of pages: 569
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sagas, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)