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Nicolas Rothwell
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Nicolas Rothwell | Literature | Public event | Sydney | Sydney Writers' Festival | Culture
In this Sydney Writers' Festival event, David Marr 'launches' Nicolas Rothwell's The Red Highway. Following this, Rothwell himself speaks about the writing of the book, and the intentions behind it.The book is the story of a quest - a journey down the red highway. In it, Rothwell exp... » play video
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“I suppose you think this is beautiful,” said Johnson, in a challenging voice.“Well,” I said, “it does have a certain primal quality.”We had not been getting on for the past 300 kilometres, and this was mostly because of the music issue. Photographers, and their musical tastes, have formed a...
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Nicolas Rothwell | Lecture | Literature | Mildura | Mildura Writers' Festival | Culture
Nicolas Rothwell delivers a fascinating meditation that touches on the place of the novel, the fading power of religious meta-narratives, the Australian landscape and other fragments drawn from his own experiences as a journalist in the Middle East and in Northern Australian. A version of this lectu... » play video
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Nicolas Rothwell delivers a fascinating meditation that touches on the place of the novel, the fading power of religious meta-narratives, the Australian landscape and other fragments drawn from his own experiences as a journalist in the Middle East and in Northern Australian. Mildura Writers' Fe... » play video
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Thoughts of this kind would always come to me after I had driven the narrow, ill-maintained highway through the Syrian Desert, towards the Euphrates Valley, the Iraqi border and Anbar Province beyond: I used to break my journey round sunset, at Tadmor, beside the ruins of Palmyra - Queen Zenobia...
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Given such characteristics, it is no great wonder that Western incomers, over the past two centuries of concerted northern settlement, have been perplexed and ill at ease in their new imperium, which they have endeavoured constantly to describe and classify, to comprehend and capture, without a...
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Nicolas Rothwell | The Monthly Essays | October 2007 | Foreign Affairs | Society & Culture
This arrival, which would have life-changing consequences for Kupka, and open a new chapter in Western appreciation of Aboriginal cultures, had been long dreamed of and long planned. Kupka, by then, had already lived in self-imposed exile from his own country for more than a decade. He had made...
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