Visitants: Text Classics

Visitants: Text ClassicsCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781925240276 Format: B format paperback Year: 2015 Publisher: The Text Publishing Company Pages: 288 Description: When Patrol Officer Alistair Cawdor commits suicide on a small island off New Guinea a colonial inquest is launched. Five witnesses are called to give testimony the government interpreter, the territory's cadet officer, a planter who claims ownership of the island, one of his servants and the son of the local

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925240276
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2015
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Pages: 288


Description:
When Patrol Officer Alistair Cawdor commits suicide on a small island off New Guinea a colonial inquest is launched. Five witnesses are called to give testimony- the government interpreter, the territory's cadet officer, a planter who claims ownership of the island, one of his servants and the son of the local chief.
Each has a disturbing story to tell. Cawdor's secret past will eventually be put together, piece by damning piece. But what of the ominous newcomer Metusela, and the unidentified visitant that has inspired a cargo cult?
First published in 1979, Randolph Stow's novel Visitants was informed by the author's own time in the Trobriand Islands two decades earlier. It is one of the most potent examinations of Australian colonialism.

'A brilliant, ambitious novel.' Sydney Morning Herald
'Tautly and vibrantly written, and brilliantly evocative of its Trobriand Islands setting.' Australian Book Review