The fierce country : surviving the dead heart /
The open spaces and isolated places outside Australia's cities have unsettled us from first European settlement to today, often with very good reason. In this nail-biting book combining the notorious and little-known, acclaimed author Stephen Orr has collected true stories that have shaped and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mile End, South Australia :
Wakefield Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | The open spaces and isolated places outside Australia's cities have unsettled us from first European settlement to today, often with very good reason. In this nail-biting book combining the notorious and little-known, acclaimed author Stephen Orr has collected true stories that have shaped and continue to haunt the Australian psyche, such as mysteries, disappearances, mistreatment and murder. Fatal conflicts between an Aboriginal tracker and the police employers hunting his community. An itinerant conman picking up tips for the perfect murder from a famous novelist around a campfire on the Rabbit-Proof Fence. A schoolteacher and her students kidnapped en masse in 1970s rural Victoria. And that fateful day when Peter Falconio pulled over beside a desert highway. Together, these tales chart an undercurrent of shifting cultural tensions as Australians find, lose and question who we are. |
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| Item Description: | "True stories from Australia's unsettled heart, 1830 to today"--Cover. |
| Physical Description: | 211 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781743055748 1743055749 |