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Whistler's Bones: A Novel of the Australian Frontier

by Greg Barron

A cattle drive into Australia’s frontier history

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A cattle drive into Australia’s frontier history

Charlie leaves Bendigo at fifteen to work as a drover, and by seventeen has become a key hand on the Durack family’s two-year cattle drive from Cooper’s Creek to the Kimberley. Greg Barron builds the novel around this little-known story, using fiction to fill gaps in the historical record. The journey through northern Australia provides the setting for both a love story and an account of settlement that holds celebration alongside condemnation. Its subject brings personal experience into contact with the larger history of the cattle drive and the region it crossed.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in historical fiction set in Australia.
  • Readers curious about cattle drives and the settlement of Northern Australia.
  • Readers who enjoy stories combining romance with frontier history.

Themes

Australian frontier historyCattle drovingSettlement and its consequencesLove

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Book overview

At the age of fifteen, Charlie left his home in Bendigo and signed on as a drover with Nat Buchanan. Two years later he was a key man on one of Australia's greatest cattle drives - the Durack family's two-year journey from Cooper's Creek, Queensland - to the Kimberley.

Stumbling on Charlie's largely unknown story, and filling in the gaps with fiction, the author has created a novel unique in Australian literature. An unprecedented adventure, and a passionate love story - Whistler's Bones is both a celebration of the good things in the settlement of Northern Australia - and a damning indictment of the bad.

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