LC control no. | no 97075024 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | White, Patrick, 1912-1990. Voss |
See also | Author: White, Patrick, 1912-1990 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut |
Other standard no. | 177192449 Q7942045 1359062 |
Form of work | Novels Action and adventure fiction Historical fiction Romance fiction |
Beginning date | 1957 |
Place of origin | Australia |
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Found in | LCCN 82-771190: Conyngham, B. From Voss, c1980 Wikipedia, October 25, 2017: Voss (novel) (Voss (1957) is the fifth published novel of Patrick White. It is based upon the life of the nineteenth-century Prussian explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt who disappeared whilst on an expedition into the Australian outback; novel centres on two characters: Voss, a German, and Laura, a young woman, orphaned and new to the colony of New South Wales; Johann Ulrich Voss sets out to cross the Australian continent in 1845. After collecting a party of settlers and two Aborigines, his party heads inland from the coast only to meet endless adversity; country: Australia; has been adapted into an opera of the same name written by Richard Meale with the libretto by David Malouf; David Lumsdaine's 'Aria for Edward John Eyre' also draws inspiration from Voss) |