![]() ![]() For me a story proceeded from the logic of an ecosystem. The connections are at once personal and universal: "I persisted with place as a starting point for all my stories. In Island Home, Winton trains his acute and lucid gaze on Australia's landscape and people, on himself and on our wounded planet. Forefront and backdrop, wave and shore, tree and stone, it was all network and linkage." This is how I came to understand nature and landscape. This is when a surfer does little more than watch and wait. ![]() But for me it was never only that," he writes in Island Home, noting that in addition to the moments of breathtaking intensity while catching great waves or wiping out, "there are hours more spent bobbing on the surface. "It's easy to imagine surfing as mere sensation, mindless vigour narcotic, repetitive activity. ![]() There's so much I could say about this prolific, award-winning and underappreciated author, but since summer is nearly here (and winter there, down under), I'll just share, in the spirit of the season, a brief passage that places human awareness in the context of surfing, one of the author's lifelong passions: My summer beach reads recommendation list this year is quite simple: any book by Australian author Tim Winton, beginning perhaps with the recently released Island Home: A Landscape Memoir. Whatever else we've told ourselves, we are not yet out of nature and nature is not done with us. ![]()
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