Heartland
by Wilson Harris
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This visionary novel follows the inner journey of Zechariah Stevenson, the son of a wealthy Georgetown businessman, while he works as the watchman at a timber depot deep within the interior. Isolated in the forest and having endured the suspicion of a fraud scandal, the mysterious death of his father, and the disappearance of his mistress, Zechariah begins a journey of self-discovery as he deconstructs previously held certainties about life by losing himself in nature. An immensely sensuous show more evocation of Guyanese flora and fauna and its potential impact on the imagination, this classic novel, first published in 1964, is a profound plea for an ecological vision of mankind's relationship to nature. show lessTags
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Wilson Harris was born Theodore Wilson Harris in New Amsterdam, Guyana on March 24, 1921. He passed the surveying examination in 1942 and worked as a land surveyor for almost 15 years. He joined a government surveying expedition into the Cuyuni River area in the north of Guyana. He moved to England in 1959. His first novel, Palace of the Peacock, show more was published in 1960. He wrote a total of 26 novels during his lifetime including Resurrection at Sorrow Hill, Jonestown, The Dark Jester, and The Ghost of Memory. He was knighted in 2010. He died on March 8, 2018 at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Heartland
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- 1964
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