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Aug 23, 2014
Felons transported to Australia in the early 19th century could (with good behaviour) become landowners. Our hero William Thornhill finally finds himself on a stunningly beautiful finger of land on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, a place he has coveted for years. However the Aboriginal people already living along the river see the land as their own. This novel is an outstanding study of cultures in collision, where an essentially good man has to make a disastrous decision.