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Two Old Men Dying

by Tom Keneally
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Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia.
Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man's discovery, in Vietnam and back home in the Northern Territory, Shelby turns his sights on Eritrea. He thinks this embattled society might represent a new cognitive leap, one that will reconcile our tenderness and our savagery, our reason and our emotions.
Shelby sees the world through the lens of his camera; Learned Man through the lens of his responsibility under law. Both men are well aware that their landscape comes to them from elders and ancestors. They are each willing to die and, in a sense, kill for their secret crafts.
Two Old Men Dying is an exquisite exploration of community and country, love and mortality.
' Intensely personal, hugely inventive and often moving.' Australian
'The whole book is a hymn to idealism, and to human development.' Sydney Morning Herald

'Always a first-rate storyteller of a traditional kind.' The Guardian
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Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

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  • ISBN: 9780143785439
  • Release date: October 24, 2018

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  • ISBN: 9780143785439
  • File size: 718 KB
  • Release date: October 24, 2018
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Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia.
Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man's discovery, in Vietnam and back home in the Northern Territory, Shelby turns his sights on Eritrea. He thinks this embattled society might represent a new cognitive leap, one that will reconcile our tenderness and our savagery, our reason and our emotions.
Shelby sees the world through the lens of his camera; Learned Man through the lens of his responsibility under law. Both men are well aware that their landscape comes to them from elders and ancestors. They are each willing to die and, in a sense, kill for their secret crafts.
Two Old Men Dying is an exquisite exploration of community and country, love and mortality.
' Intensely personal, hugely inventive and often moving.' Australian
'The whole book is a hymn to idealism, and to human development.' Sydney Morning Herald

'Always a first-rate storyteller of a traditional kind.' The Guardian
Expand title description text
Fiction Literature