The fierce country : surviving the dead heart / Stephen Orr.
Publication details: Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2018.Description: ix, 211 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781743055748 (paperback)
- Fierce country : surviving the dead heart : true stories from Australia's unsettled heart, 1830 to today
- Country life
- Criminal investigation
- Manners and customs
- Race relations
- Rural conditions
- Rural conditions -- History
- Rural conditions -- Australia -- History
- Country life -- Australia -- History
- Criminal investigation -- Australia -- History
- Australia
- Australia -- History
- Australia -- Social life and customs
- Australia -- Race relations
- Australian
- 994 23
- DU110 .O77 2018
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 994 ORR | Available | 068354 |
"True stories from Australia's unsettled heart, 1830 to today" -- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
