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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The Far Country by Nevil Shute. Jennifer fled the drab monotony of post-war London for Australia, and feels like she has come home. When she meets Carl, she has every reason to stay. But the two come from different worlds, and need work to build a life together in a pioneer country. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published July 1st by House of Stratus first published The Far Country More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Far Countryplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Far Country. The Far Country book by Nevil Shute author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach contrasts the bleakness of post-war London and Great Britain, especially the ongoing food rationing and general lack of prosperity, with the bright, roomy country of Australia, where massive meals are the order of the day, everyone almost has financial security, and The Far Country landscape is awe-inspiring. Merrijig, Australia Against that backdrop, we have the The Far Country and romance between Jennifer Morton, a British young woma This book by Nevil Shute author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach contrasts the bleakness The Far Country post-war London and Great Britain, especially the ongoing food rationing and general lack of prosperity, with the bright, roomy country of Australia, The Far Country massive meals are the order of the day, everyone almost has financial security, and the landscape is awe-inspiring. Merrijig, Australia Against that backdrop, we have the adventures and romance between Jennifer Morton, a British young woman visiting her relatives The Far Country Australia and deciding whether to make her life there, and Carl Zlinter, a Czech doctor who's working as a lumberman in Australia and loves the country But in the lumber camps there's often a need for first aid, and people turn a blind eye when he performs minor surgeries. And then one day there's a major accident The story begins with some scenes from the life of Jack and Jane Dorman, a couple in their 50s who moved to Australia many years ago. Jane, a British woman from an upper class family, married Jack years ago against her parents' wishes. She was too young, too immature to be able to stand up and state her conviction that there was solid stuff in this young man, the substance for a happy and enduring marriage; she felt that very The Far Country, but she could never get it out in words. Jane's Aunt Ethel was her sole supporter. Now, after many years of financial struggles on their Australian sheep ranch, Jack and Jane finally are making a lot of money. Meanwhile, back in Great Britain, Ethel's granddaughter Jennifer gets an emergency call about Ethel, and rushes to her home. Carl The Far Country an unusual character for the love interest, with a thick accent and a somewhat timid manner with Jennifer. He's a good guy and a talented surgeon, though, and I ended up really liking him. Ethel was a distinctive character as well, a relic of a bygone era with pride and a deep wish not to be a burden or charity case. Compared to The Far Country two, Jennifer is somewhat less memorable, though appealing; a plucky British young woman. Nevil Shute has a lot to say about the relative merits of post-war England vs. Australia, and it's clear on which side of the fence he stands. I don't know how accurate his portrayal of these countries in the early fifties is, but he does draw Australia as kind of the Promised Land, a place of great opportunity for The Far Country both rich and poor. There were a lot of European refugees who emigrated to Australia in the aftermath of WWII, called the "New Australians," and this book talks quite a bit about the Australian immigration program and the work requirements for immigrants. Interesting stuff. Shute's views on colonialism are dated, though The Far Country understandable for a book that's nearly 70 years old. The Far Country isn't as memorable as A Town Like Aliceone of my favorite comfort reads, and the ending left too many loose threads for my taste. I really wanted an epilogue or a few more chapters! But I enjoyed it and downed the whole thing in one evening. June buddy read with the Retro Reads group. View all 10 comments. I don't remember any of them clearly, but I know I enjoyed them at the The Far Country. This The Far Country is no exception! Shute an immigrant to Australia himself explores some The Far Country interesting themes - "New Australians", the waste of qualified people working in unskilled jobs because their qualifications aren't recognised in their new country although fairly recent events in many countries have proved it is a good idea to have very stringent checks to make sure 4. Shute an immigrant to Australia himself explores some very interesting themes - The Far Country Australians", the waste of qualified people working in unskilled jobs The Far Country their qualifications aren't recognised in their new country although fairly recent events in many countries have proved it is a good idea to have very stringent checks to make sure that the qualifications mean what they say! Australians thinking the grass might be greener on the British side of the fence and having a yearning for what many of them still think of as "home. Warning: I am going to ramble. Similar The Far Country practices did exist in New Zealand as well. The poverty in the Britain of the s compared to the land of The Far Country in Australia was also a theme. Shute himself must have found it wonderful to move to such a well endowed land. I knocked half a star off my rating because there were a few loose ends. Excellent foreshadowing allowed us to predict one important character's likely fate, but I found the glancing reference The Far Country view spoiler [ Angela's fate a bit disappointing. I do wonder if Shute was intending to make Angela a more prominent character. View all 6 comments. Mar 02, Algernon Darth Anyan rated it really liked it Shelves: I have The Far Country to read a book by Nevil Shute novel that will not let his generosity and kindness, his understated, amiable nature shine through and illuminate the saddest and depressing themes. The Far Country is no exception. It is a delicate and touching love story between two young, lonely souls, but the background and inspiration for the novel is anchored in what is probably the most difficult decision the writer had to take in his life: to abandon his own homeland and immigrate to the far side I have yet to read a book by Nevil Shute novel that will not let his generosity and kindness, his understated, amiable nature shine through and illuminate the saddest and depressing themes. It is a delicate and touching love story between two young, lonely souls, but the background and inspiration for the novel is anchored in what is probably the most difficult decision the writer had to take in his life: to The Far Country his own homeland and immigrate to the far side of the world. The inclusion of autobiographical elements in Nevil Shute novels only serves to increase the sense of authenticity and sincerity that make me come back to Nevil Shute novels on a regular basis. On my second or third re-read, this present novel has lost none of its initial appeal. If anything, it has gained The Far Country, as I find myself contemplating living for years outside my own country on an expat contract. The year isthe second World War is officially over, but the hardships, the food shortages, the heavy taxes and the political upheavals still grip England and most of Europe in their iron fists. The most vulnerable are the very young and the very old. The old lady reminisces at length on the prosperity and social graces of her Victorian country heiress lifestyle, unable to adapt to the changing environment around her. There's no place for old ladies in the brave new world. Shute lets go with all guns against the evils of The Far Country new socialist government and the woes of the improvised National Health Service. His perspective leans mostly towards conservative, elitist values, not surprisingly given his own background as an upper middle-class engineer, but with his signature equanimity, he does present counter The Far Country and opinions from The Far Country leftist movement and enough context to paint a balanced picture. In each year of the peace food had got shorter, more and more expensive, and taxation has risen higher and higher. He was now living on a lower scale than in the war-time years; The Far Country decline had gone on steadily, if anything increasing in momentum, and there seemed no end to it. Where would it all end, and what lay ahead of the young people of today in England? Jennifer's father urges her to go visit a distant relation in Australia with the money that came too late to save her ailing grandmother. Jane Dorman has immigrated herself from England against the opposition of her family toawards her marrying dashing and unconventional Australian lieutenant in After long years The Far Country hard work and money troubles, Jack and Jane Dorman are finally able to pay off the loan for their wool station big sheep farm in Australian lingo and turn a profit due to the increase in wool prices. Even The Far Country high government taxes they are still left with enough The Far Country for small luxuries like new cars, holidays in Melbourne, house appliances and guests from the homeland. Regarding Australia, Nevil The Far Country portrait may seem slightly exagerrated in its rosy tint The Far Country a land of marvelous landscapes, easy prosperity and limitless chances for the The Far Country man, but as a literary tool deployed to contrast the bleak English situation, it serves its role remarcably well. Sweeping vistas of eucalyptus forests called gum tress in the novelclear rivers filled with trout, uninhabited miles after miles of pastureland, brilliant birds and novel beasts like koala bears and wallabies, stress free and hospitable locals - these are the ingredients that greet Jennifer on her arrival to the continent. Although we start the journey learning about sheep farming The Far Country, soon enough the focus moves to the lumbering camps in the neighboring mountains, where New Australians, as the displaced persons who lost their homes and even countries in the war are called, work their two year indenture as payment for being allowed into the country from the crowded camps in Europe. One of them is Carl Zlinter, a Czech doctor who is put to cut timber as his diploma is not recognized in the new country. His perspective adds another layer to the immigrant song, one of the many decent people that was uprooted from his home soil, thrown into the iron maws of the army and left abandoned after peace The Far Country a refugee camp. Australia means for him stability and security, away from a crowded Europe where borders are redrawn every decade or The Far Country. Since I was a young man there has been this threat of war; or war itself, and death, and marching, and defeat, and camps of homeless people, and the threat of war again, and of more marching, of more death, of more parting from one's home - unending; here is a country where a man can built a home without the feeling that all will be useless and destroyed next year. The Far Country () - Anthony Mann | Cast and Crew | AllMovie

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Build up The Far Country Halloween Watchlist with our list of the most popular horror titles on Netflix in October. See the list. InJeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef, and woe betide anyone standing in his way. He drives a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and after a delay caused by larcenous town boss Gannon through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. Two lovely women fall for misanthropic Jeff, but he believes in every-man-for-himself, turning his back on growing lawlessness, until it finally strikes home. Now, admittedly, I'm no ardent student of the genre. As a matter of fact, I've tended always to shy away from Westerns because, in spite of all their critical cachet as America's primal stories or whateverthey seem to me to forever devolve into tiresome retreads of either "shoot up the Injuns," "the big gunfight," or "Hey, let's form a posse! And yes, I HAVE seen at least some of the so-called "greats", and unapologetically lump them into this negative assessment - including Stagecoach, Rio Bravo, My Darling Clementine, and of course the infamous [but profoundly dull] Clint Eastwood-Sergio Leone teamups in the '60s. But when I saw this movie on TV - as part of a commemorative Jimmy Stewart weekend upon his death - I The Far Country GOT IT: I understood, at least in theory, what the Western mythos has to offer as a serious thematic preoccupation aside from just action and thrills. The Far Country is the push-pull between lawlessness and order; the American West represented freedom, but also the prospect of the wild, the untamed. Respectable folk could get hurt out there. Which, of course, meant that perhaps - just perhaps - it wasn't meant for respectable folk, and that the only residents should be the amoral and the shifty, those who dispensed justice strictly from the barrel of their revolvers, and where kill or be killed would ever be the law of the land. In such an environment, of course, The Far Country true heroes are the ones who are ornery and The Far Country enough to be out there in the first place and so reject "society," at least as it manifested itself on the Eastern seaboardand yet have enough sense of justice to believe that a society based on chaos and fear just IS NOT RIGHT. Sadly, it is so often not the case, as the white hats are completely white, the black ones completely black and let's not even get started talking about the Indians, ok and there is precious little shades of gray in between. Not in this one. Jimmy Stewart plays a blatant fortune hunter who follows the trail of miners before him into the Alaskan wilderness to prospect for gold. Pointedly, they are out for themselves, and while Stewart displays his patented charm come on, we could never really dislike the guy, now could we? He must confront the lawlessness in himself, and weigh it against the need for order and justice which are so blatantly lacking in the border town which serves as the miners' starting point on their gold dust trail. This town is The Far Country tightly by its wicked sheriff, Mr. Gannon, played by John McIntire in one of the best The Far Country guy" performances I've ever The Far Country. Further, by establishing a type of breezy if necessarily guarded camaraderie between McIntire and Stewart, the The Far Country plays up the notion of how close in temperament they really are - and so how far a moral distance Stewart must walk by the end of the film. I won't go The Far Country all the twists and turns the plot takes - see those for yourself as well as the rugged and gorgeous Alaskan scenery - filmed on location, mind you, not cheap painted stills that the studio made up. What's key here is how much this story focuses upon character, with great dialogue and character interaction substituting for gunplay much of the time - although the film has just enough action and adventure to prevent it The Far Country ever being static read: "talky". Definitely one of the greatest performances I've The Far Country from Stewart, The Far Country he could play The Far Country renegade, the "man's man" just as convincingly as the decent and upright guy next door. If anything, in fact, his "everyman" qualities lend greater strength to his characterization, making him seem less mythic or overblown - -like, say, Eastwood or John Wayne - and more a three-dimensional personage. His relationship with Brennan is well-played: understated, but nevertheless touching with The Far Country faint suggestion of George and Lenny from "Of Mice and Men" - an altogether different type of "western". I certainly have more Westerns to see, but this is for now my favorite, and the yardstick by which I will The Far Country judge all the others. It deserves to be much better known and appreciated than it is. Looking for some The Far Country streaming picks? Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents The Far Country. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. A self-minded adventurer Jeff Webster locks horns with a crooked lawman Mr. Gannon while driving cattle to Dawson. Director: Anthony Mann. Writer: Borden Chase story and screenplay. Available on Amazon. Added to Watchlist. The Best Horror Movies on Netflix. Best of the classic Westerns. James Stewart. The Best Films Ever Made - Western Movies. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use The Far Country IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Complete credited cast: James Stewart Jeff Webster Ruth Roman Ronda Castle Corinne Calvet Renee Vallon Walter Brennan Ben Tatum John McIntire Gannon Jay C. Rube Harry Morgan Ketchum as Henry Morgan Steve Brodie Ives Connie Gilchrist Hominy Robert J. Madden as Robert Wilke Chubby Johnson Dusty Royal Dano Luke Jack Elam Frank Newberry Kathleen Freeman Grits Connie Van Edit The Far Country InJeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef, and woe betide anyone standing in his way. Edit Did You Know? The Mounted Police were present in the Yukon in large numbers before and during the Klondike gold rush to enforce the law. Quotes Jeff Webster : I don't The Far Country other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me. The Far Country this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Language: English. Runtime: 97 min. Color: Color Technicolor. Edit page. October Streaming Picks. Back to School Picks. Clear your history. Jeff Webster. Ronda Castle. Renee Vallon.