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Set in Australia in the 1840's. Returning home to England from Van Dieman's Land, the ship is wrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs. Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of aborigines, along with the rest of the crew. In the course of her escape, she is torn by conflicting loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Patrick White
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 387
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Penguin, Cape
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140044096
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An Australian author, was widely regarded as a major English-language novelist of the 20th century.
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