Outback

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Summary: A novel of the English settlement of Australia
Review: A fictional account of the begining of English settlement of Australia. A wonderfully descriptive story of the hardships and triumphs of early efforts to settle this strange country with penal colonists. It is told through the eyes of an aboriginal girl and a young englishman.

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Summary: Outback Series
Review: OUTBACK - Aaron Fletcher

Patrick Garrity starts life as the bastard son of a female
convict. Unwanted and unloved, he is born in shame and raised
in the poverty of a Sydney orphanage. Barely out of his
teens, he leaves the brawling city to make a new life for
himself in the limitless back county of New South Wales.
Alone and hungry, he meets the woman who will change his
destiny and that of an entire continent.
Innocent in the ways of Europeans, Mayrah is the native girl
Garrity buys to satisfy his passions. Divided by competing
cultures, they are nevertheless united by their fierce love of
the land -- and eventually, each other. Together they carve
out an enormous empire in the great outback, and found a new
generation of Australians who will forever bear the imprint of
their pride and passion.

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Summary: I want to go
Review: When I first started to read this book (first page)I thought it might be just to mind boggeling. The first few paragraphs were unclear to me. By end of page 2 I was thoroughly hooked. It is a story about an Aboriginal female who is brought to the son, of a criminal sent to Australia from England, as he is looking for a full time companion during his long days and nights caring for thousands of sheep. She is scared to death, she can't understand his language, and he doesn't understand anything she tries to say. Over a long period of time she learns to speak pidgon english and he learns to understand. They have children of their own, and a long history of the family unfolds in all its glory and excitement. This one of the best books I have read. And that is more than a thousand. Give it a go you'll not be disappointed.

Rating:
Summary: I want to go
Review: When I first started to read this book (first page)I thought it might be just to mind boggeling. The first few paragraphs were unclear to me. By end of page 2 I was thoroughly hooked. It is a story about an Aboriginal female who is brought to the son, of a criminal sent to Australia from England, as he is looking for a full time companion during his long days and nights caring for thousands of sheep. She is scared to death, she can't understand his language, and he doesn't understand anything she tries to say. Over a long period of time she learns to speak pidgon english and he learns to understand. They have children of their own, and a long history of the family unfolds in all its glory and excitement. This one of the best books I have read. And that is more than a thousand. Give it a go you'll not be disappointed.