Patrick White

Patrick White’s Voss: The Desert as a Test of the Soul

A man sets out to walk across a continent, and the country he is really crossing is himself. Patrick White's Voss turns an expedition into a test of the soul, where the will to conquer and the willingness to be humbled prove to be the same motion. Voss is a remarkable book.

Patrick White's Voss rendered as a mid-century painted book cover, the title in torn-paper letters filled with faint handwriting against a swirling yellow sun over a blue sky and a pale desert horizon.