Name: Plevna: A Biography in Verse
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Author: Page, Geoff
ISBN: 9781742588209

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Author

Geoff Page

Publisher

University of Western Australia Press

Language

English

Pages

150

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.6 x 0.9 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9781742588209

Synopsis "Plevna: A Biography in Verse"

Why have we no biography, three hundred pages, dense with footnotes, boasting your achievements? He was a Melbourne surgeon. He worked for the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War. He was the oldest man at Gallipoli, and took illegal photographs during a nine-hour truce. He repaired Ned Kelly after the Siege of Glenrowan. He cut quite a figure in "Marvellous Melbourne" of the 1880s and 90s. He did remarkable things. He wrote it all down. In this verse-portrait of Sir Charles Snodgrass 'Plevna' Ryan (1853 - 1926), Geoff Page weaves the writing of Ryan together with his own voice as biographer, setting down the life of a man forgotten by history at the same time as reflecting on his role as intermediary. Page's sensitive investigation into the lost life of Charles Ryan probes broader topics of mortality, posterity and collective memory. Written in second person and in verse, Page reflects both on the power and the unreliability of storied lives.

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