The fierce country, surviving the dead heart, Stephen Orr
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The fierce country, surviving the dead heart, Stephen Orr
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The fierce country
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Stephen Orr
Sub title
surviving the dead heart
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: 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
Target audience
adult
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