Memoirs of a Semi-detached Australian Author:John Passmore In this vivid and iconoclastic memoir, John Passmore takes us on an unsentimental journey from his childhood in Manly, to the hot-house environment of the University of Sydney, and on to the realities of his imagined Europe. The second of these journeys saw the death of 'the little boy from Manly' and his replacement by a semi-detached Austr... more »alian - not a rootless 'citizen of the world', but an Australian whose angle of vision had been permanently changed. John Passmore mounts a passionate defence of the life of the mind, displaying the intellectual energy and insight that has made him a philosopher of international stature.« less