num_pages: 448
description: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANESet in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only on a few occasions, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. Voss sets out to cross the continent, and as hardships, mutiny and betrayal whittle away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to Laura gradually increases. Laura, waiting in Sydney, moves through the months of separation as if they were a dream and Voss the only reality.
language: English
title: Voss
titlecomplete: Voss
characters: Johann Ulrich Voss, Laura Trevelyan
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics, Novels, Australia, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 3153
places: Australia
awards: awardedAt: -347126400000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: -410198400000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of R