Voss

19 hrs. 28 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Patrick White

Narrator Olga Pletnyova

Description

Australia, the 1840s. Researcher Johann Voss and six of his companions set off on a deadly expedition with an ambitious goal — to compile the first detailed map of the Green Continent. In Sydney, he leaves behind a woman he loves dearly — the young aristocrat Laura Trevelyan, for whom life from that moment breaks into “before” and “after.”

Voss knew this would be a difficult, exhausting journey. Through a waterless, scorching desert where every drop of water is precious, and later, under relentless rains and suffocating silence of the hostile Australian bush, across territories of Indigenous people who consider white newcomers their rightful prey. He knew all this, but he couldn’t imagine how all these hardships would change the participants of the expedition — including himself. Rage builds up in people’s souls, and in the camp, a mutiny is brewing…