A deeply personal journey through Australian life, family heritage, music, memory, survival and the powerful pull of the land that shaped it all.
Moving between memoir, diary, reflection and story, Deshton Gordanvic traces a life marked by six generations of family history, roads travelled across Australia, creativity, hardship and an enduring search for meaning, freedom and home.
When an ancient keystone disappears, two unlikely heroes must embark on an extraordinary journey across legendary landscapes to protect one of the world’s greatest wonders. Join Athor and Eric in a heartwarming adventure filled with friendship, courage, and the magic hidden within nature.
From family land and Australian roads to music, memory and deeply personal reflection, A Painting for Goanna Land moves through the experiences that shaped Deshton Gordanvic's search for identity, meaning and home.
Generations of family, Australian land and the enduring pull of where it all began.
Guitars, songs and creative ideas run through the story like a soundtrack to memory.
Queensland, distant towns and long journeys become part of an unmistakably Australian life.
Diary, observation and personal experience collide in an intensely individual record of life.
A search for freedom, belonging, resilience and a place to call home.
Follow Athor and Eric through legendary landscapes where ancient magic awakens, friendships grow stronger, and every step reveals a new mystery waiting to be discovered.
Forgotten runes awaken legends.
Together, hearts become stronger.
Magic hides within nature.
Destiny awaits beyond Stonehenge.
Deshton Gordanvic's writing is rooted in Australian land, family history and lived experience. Growing up around a long-established family farm near Nambour, Queensland, he developed a connection to the landscape and to the generations that came before him — themes that run throughout A Painting for Goanna Land.
His life has taken him across Queensland and beyond, through travel, music, motorbikes and hands-on work. The manuscript reflects a restless creative path shaped by guitars and songwriting, Australian roads, practical craftsmanship, observation and the determination to make sense of a changing world through words.
Rather than presenting a conventional memoir, A Painting for Goanna Land brings those experiences together through personal recollection, diary, storytelling and reflection — always returning to questions of identity, independence, belonging and what it means to still call Australia home.
I still want to call the land of OZ my home. A Painting for Goanna Land
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Responses to a deeply personal Australian story of family, landscape, music, memory and a life spent searching for identity, meaning and home.
“What stayed with me most was the sense of place. The family land, the Queensland roads and the desire to still call Oz home give the book an emotional centre that keeps pulling you back.”
“Music feels like a second language throughout the book. Songs, guitars, memories and moments from the road continually cross over, giving the writing its own unpredictable rhythm.”
“This isn't a conventional memoir. Diary, family history, fiction, humour, hardship and personal reflection sit beside each other in a raw record of one man's experience of a changing world.”
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