A Terrible Beauty – History of the Gordon River Country | Richard Flanagan | 1985 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Richard Flanagan's first book — published in 1985, more than a decade before his fiction career began, and long before The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker Prize in 2014.

A Terrible Beauty is a history of the Gordon River country in Tasmania's south-west wilderness — the landscape that was at the centre of the Franklin Dam controversy in the early 1980s. Flanagan wrote it as a young man deeply connected to that country and that campaign, and it stands both as a piece of environmental history and as an early document of the writer he would become.

At a time when the Gordon River and its surrounds were actively contested, this book made the case for their significance through history and story rather than purely through argument.

Out of print since the 1980s and increasingly sought after by collectors of Flanagan's work.

CONDITION

• Used, generally good condition.
• Spine a little faded. Slight wear to the edges of the cover.
• The binding feels fragile — handle with care and not suitable for heavy repeated use.
• See photos.

BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover book.
• Published 1985. Out of print.
• 100-pages, indexed.
• Black and white illustrations.

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