Sydney · 1957 · citedVoss
Patrick White
In the 1840s the obsessive German explorer Voss sets out to cross the Australian continent, sustained by a strange, wordless spiritual bond with Laura Trevelyan, a young woman he leaves behind in Sydney. White's novel holds together two worlds: colonial Sydney, with the Bonner household and the harbour from which the expedition departs, and the vast unmapped interior, drawn from the real inland journeys of explorers like Leichhardt, where the party is broken and Voss meets his death.
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