- Title:
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Capricornia
- Written by:
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Xavier Herbert
- Read by:
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Humphrey Bower
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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20
- Duration:
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23 hours 33 minutes
- Published:
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July 01 2009
- Available Date:
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May 28 2011
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742333199
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian; Australian Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Bestseller
Western Australian author
"Capricornia will always be one of the greatest Australian novels, a defining work in the search for what it is, or was, to be Australian."
Australian Book Review
"The best written and finest spirited novel that has ever come out of Australia."
HG Wells
A true Australian classic.
Spanning three generations‚ Capricornia tells the story of Australia's 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 Mark's son‚ Norman‚ whose struggles to find a place in the world, who embodies the complexities of Capricornia itself.
"Big, powerful, irreverent...as timeless as the stars, as Australian as spinifex."
The Sydney Morning Herald