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Luca Antara

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Luca Antara
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Martin Edmond
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreAustralia, New Zealand & Pacific history
ISBN/Barcode 9781842433195
ClassificationsDewey:994
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
Imprint Oldcastle Books Ltd
Publication Date 20 May 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A rich tapestry of history and the present. Essentially, it parallels the life of the author, an emigre to Sydney, and the life of a historical figure, Antonio da Nova, the servant of a Portuguese explorer who, in the 1600s, sends him to find out more about Luca Antara (now Australia). The lives of the two men, the strange customs and unique social mores of each man's culture and time intertwine throughout. It ends with Edmond literally walking in the footsteps of da Nova across northern Australia.

Author Biography

Martin Edmond grew up in a remote mountain village in New Zealand's King Country. After university, he joined avant theatre troupe Red Mole, touring extensively and internationally in the late 1970s. Since 1981 he has lived in Sydney, working as an author and a screenwriter. He has written the feature films Illustrious Energy and Terra Nova; his books include The Autobiography of my Father, The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont and Chronicle of the Unsung, which won the Biography Award at the 2005 Montana Book Awards.

Reviews

Reading this book is like listening to someone whose companionable, open-ended stories are absorbing yet elusive: you must make of them what you will -- Artemis Cooper * Daily Telegraph * part autobiography, part history, part travel book and part quest narrative, an unusual combination that nevertheless works. Indeed, Edmond's text is often a pure pleasure to read -- John Clay * The Literary Review * On one level, Edmond's curiously ambiguous book might be mistaken for a novel; on another, it is autobiography; on yet another it is literary history -- Iain Finlayson * The Times * In this part-memoir, part-fiction, part-history, Edmond attempts to find 'Luca Antara', the fabled land down under -- Naomi Mapstone * The Financial Times * ultimately, any memoir's agenda may be to present the multifariousness of the self, and where Edmond the protagonist is most vivid is in his evocations of his adopted Australia -- Jim Shepard * New York Times *