Desert horizon biography

E. Morris Miller's Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 728-729 comments: 'The topography of The Desert Horizon, 1923, and its sequel, Daimon, 1925, covers the far north-west of Western Australia, with contrasting changes to Perth and its environs.

These novels, written in narrative form, are a psychological study of the influence of wide silent spaces upon human contacts. Detailing in The Desert Horizon how Martin O'Brien from childhood came under the spell of the desert lands and their far-flung horizons.

Desert horizon biography

Watson makes of him a man at one with their solitude. He cannot cut himself apart. After marriage at Perth with the daughter of a newly-arrived immigrant, he sets himself the task of winning a station whose boundaries are the desert's limits.

The tragic story of his married life is realistically recorded in Daimon. The wife, a city girl, bravely struggles to adapt herself to lands lying empty under the stars. She is afflicted by a morbid co