‘a wonderfully original memoir’
– Observer
‘a pure pleasure to read’
– Literary Review
‘Reading this book is like listening
to someone whose companionable,
open-ended stories are absorbing
yet elusive: you must make of them
what you will’
– Daily Telegraph
LUCA ANTARA
MARTIN EDMOND
‘a graceful and mesmerizing blend of history,
autobiography, travel and romance.’ - JM Coetzee
‘A book rich in ideas, at once erudite and The lives of Edmond and da Nova and the
eclectic, and full of beautifully unexpected strange customs and unique social mores of
and evocative descriptions... This is back- each man’s culture and time intertwine in
packing for the mind, a trip full of remarkable this quest for a history of Australia; a quest
sights.’ that takes the reader to the far Marquesas
New to Sydney, impoverished and displaced,
Islands, Paris at the time of the Commune,
Martin Edmond ekes out a living as a taxi
the Portugal of the Fátima revelations,
driver and in his spare time scours second hand
seventeenth century Dutch fatalities on the
bookshops in search of Australia’s history.
Houtman Abrolhos and the mysterious first
Portuguese voyages into northern Australia.
Amidst the rare books he savours, Edmond
stumbles upon the extraordinary tale of a
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seventeenth century Portuguese servant, António
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da Nova, sent to find the mysterious Luca Antara
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(now Australia).
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Martin Edmond lives in Sydney, working as an author
(EXCL. AUSTRALIA & NZ.)
and a screenwriter. He has written the feature films
ISBN: 978-1-84243-319-5
Illustrious Energy and Terra Nova; his books include
The Autobiography of my Father, The Resurrection of Philip
Clairmont and Chronicle of the Unsung, which won the
Biography Award at the 2005 Montana Book Awards.
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