On a sweltering summer night in Sydney, three members linger in the near-empty smoking-room of the Cassowary Club, and their talk sets a search in motion that leads far inland. The story moves from city larrikin society to an old sheep station, an heiress’s arrival, a coach accident and hard driving through the bush with an Aboriginal horse-tracker called Frying Pan.
The only full-length novel by the poet of The Man from Snowy River; its attitudes to Aboriginal Australians are those of 1906. Download the free EPUB.