Capricornia

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1996
Edition: Reprint

Description: 510 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australias north. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians, of chance relationships that can form bonds for life, of dispossession, murder and betrayal.Capricornia will always be one of the greatest of Australian novels, a defining work in the search for what it is, or was, to be Australian. Australian Book ReviewSpanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australias north. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians, of chance relationships that can form bonds for life, of dispossession, murder and betrayal. In 1904 the brothers Oscar and Mark Shillingsworth, clad in serge suits and bowler hats, arrive in Port Zodiac on the coast of Capricornia. they are clerks who have come from the south to join the Capricornian Government Service. Oscar prospers, and takes to his new life as a gentleman. Mark, however, is restless, and takes up with old Ned Krater, a trepang fisherman, who tells him tales of the sea and the islands, introduces him to drink, and boasts of his conquests of Aboriginal women - or Black Velvet, as they are called. But it is Marks son, Norman, whose struggles to find a place in the world embody the complexities of Capricornia itself.My Capricornia is a hymn book written in adoration of Australia ... the Land of the Unshackled Southern Cross, the Australian earth itself, out of a passionate love of which alone can a true Australian Nation grow. Xavier Herbert

ISBN: 9780207189739