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The Hunter - Julia Leigh
The Hunter
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The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind - to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fable, fear and legend.
The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind - to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fable, fear and legend.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780571200191 (0571200192)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 170
Edition language: English
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LittleMissProcrastination
LittleMissProcrastination rated it
5.0 Tasmanian Gothic
A classic. Beautifully written, so different, and so much darker than the movie. Two quotes to illustrate the beauty of the author's prose:"Dark here comes quickly. He undresses and slips into his silky cold sleeping bag. Up above, the clouds mask the stars and the moon alone glows like a strange pe...
jennifer mills
jennifer mills rated it
3.0 Hunter
Creepy. I liked it, tho not as much as Disquiet.
NicolaW
NicolaW rated it
Every man is an island. It's a dog-eat-dog world. Can you step into the same river twice? If you consider these things and throw in a bit of Bear Grylls then you have the gist of the book. From about mid-way the film and the book part company, if my memory serves me correctly.
tien
tien rated it
3.0 The Hunter
M. (aka David Martin, for this trip at least) is being sent on a hunt of a nearly extinct, borderline mythical, creature, the thylacine (a Tasmanian tiger). He is, above all things, a hunter. M is solitary, efficient, and ruthless; lacking the social skills to interact with his kind with ease. Th...
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