Medium Paperback, Good Condition, Previous Owners Markings, 1984, 282 pages, ISBN 0 14 00 3217 7

The Survivor – Thomas Keneally

Alec Ramsay is the survivor of a disastrous Antarctic expedition which abandoned his revered friend and leader of the party, Stephen Leeming.

For forty years, in the security of academia, Ramsey has nurtured with guilt his doubts about this incident. Now Leeming’s body is, against all odds, to be exhumed from the Antarctic icecap, Ramsay must confront his obsession and decide whether he really did – or can continue to – survive at all.

‘What, of course, he feared… was a change in the essence of his life, a change as absolute as death.’

“His tone is often wry, sometimes faintly cynical, but his purpose is always investigatory… It is a fine and truthful balance.” – Times Literary Supplement