โ Scribed by Thomas Keneally
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler's List ,returns with an exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, taking place in both prehistoric and modern Australia.
An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with reimagining the full story of the Learned Man--a prehistoric man whose remains are believed to be the link between Africa and ancient Australia. From Vietnam to northern Africa and the Australian Outback, Shelby searches for understanding of this enigmatic man from the ancient past, unaware that the two men share a great deal in common.
Some 40,000 years in the past, the Learned Man has made his home alongside other members of his tribe. Complex and deeply introspective, he reveres tradition, loyalty, and respect for his ancestors. Willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good, the Learned Man cannot conceive that a man millennia later...
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
**Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of *The Daughters of Mars* and *Schindler's List****,* **returns with an exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, taking place in both prehistoric and modern Australia.** An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obs
**Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of *The Daughters of Mars* and *Schindler's List****,* **returns with an exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, taking place in both prehistoric and modern Australia.** An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obs
**From one of our most pre eminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past, and how our experience colors those meanings.** Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven surviving trustees of the now defunct (for 34 years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his da
Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even a