Author: Peter Watt
Publisher: Pan Australia
ISBN: 1742629288
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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The first bestselling novel in the compelling Duffy and Macintosh series, depicting our turbulent history as never before. "The home grown version of Wilbur Smith" The Sunday Age A stark and vivid novel of Australia's brutal past. An epic tale of two families, the Macintoshes and the Duffys, who are locked in a deadly battle from the moment squatter Donald Macintosh commits an act of barbarity on his Queensland property. Their paths cross in love, death and revenge as both families fight to tame the wild frontier of Australia's north country. PRAISE FOR THE SERIES "A rousing and revealing yarn" Weekend Australian "the historical detail brings the ... 19th century to rip-roaring life" The Australian "Watt's fans love his work for its history, adventure and storytelling" Brisbane News
Author: Mildred Walker
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The story of three decades in the life of Pamela Lacey and a Montana town, The Curlew's Cry spans World War I, the Great Depression, and the influenza epidemic of 1917, as it renders "a quietly told, honestly plotted story filled with careful details and with good descriptions of various aspects of life in the West" (Harriette Arnow, Saturday Review).
Author: Karen Manton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780369373717
Category : Australia, Northern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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As soon as Greta, her husband Joel, and their three sons arrive at the rural Top End property where Joel grew up, she is filled with a sense of unease. There's the dam filled with poisoned water, the burned-out family home on the hill, the crude white stones marking the burial sites of his sister and mother, the irresistible pull and authority of the land itself. And, who is the mysterious girl living in a forlorn hut near the creek? Struggling in the intense humidity of the "buildup" as she plants a garden and helps Joel build a tourist cabin, Greta knows she is an outsider, both to the town and to the land. Using her camera, she tries to make the invisible visible. As she gets drawn into the silent mystery of Joel's family and the secrets of his past, memories from her own beach childhood down south stir in unexpected and sometimes frightening ways. Threading through Greta's experiences is the eerie cry of the curlew like the voice of the land itself, calling her to piece together the grief of the people and the place where she is living, and glimpses of her own past she has pushed aside.
Author: Fred Bodsworth
Publisher: Counterpoint
ISBN: 9781887178259
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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More than three million readers around the world have been touched by this conservation classic, the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew's last perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a lost species.
Author: Eleanor Farjeon
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 1774642883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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The Silver Curlew is one of Eleanor Farjeon's finest works, an intriguing re-telling of the classic story Rumpelstiltskin. Mother Codling lives with her children in a small, Norfolk windmill. One day, the Codlngs receive a surprise visit from the king of Norwich, who insists that eighteen-year-old Doll Codling must spin a certain amount of flax for him, or he will cut off her head. Doll, terrified of dying, makes a deal with a spindle-imp, in order to save herself and her family. The only clincher is, that he returns to the castle when Doll's daughter is born and insists that he take the newborn child as payment for his work. Doll, and her younger sister Poll, try desperately to keep the baby...
Author: Mary Colwell
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008241066
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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‘Focuses a razor light on the plight of one of our most iconic birds. Inspirational!’ Tim Birkhead Curlews are Britain’s largest wading bird, known for their evocative calls which embody wild places; they provoke a range of emotions that many have expressed in poetry, art and music.
Author: Saracen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Author: Ripley S. Hugo
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803223837
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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This biography of the author of 13 celebrated novels is also Hugo's search for the writing life of a mother known to her children as a socially correct middle-class doctor's wife rather than as the ambitious novelist she was as well. 14 photos.
Author: Horatio Clare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908213334
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The captivating story of the search through Europe for the Slender-billed curlew which stands on the brink of extinction.
Author: Emma Phipson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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