Blackbird Story: A Gripping Tale of Intrigue and Adventure in the South Seas and Torres Strait

by John Singe

Book Overview

It started with a letter from Queensland and abruptly Duncan Ross, a placid clerk, is plucked from his humdrum life on the Sydney wharves and dispatched on a secret mission to the South Seas where he encounters brutal blackbirders, fierce cannibals and, unexpectedly, a resurgent Ku Klux Klan fixed on recreating the cotton plantations of the Old South in the far reaches of the Pacific. From the crystalline lagoons of the Coral Sea to the pearling grounds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1796009202
• ISBN13: 9781796009200
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Xlibris Au
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"