Outback

by Aaron Fletcher

Book Overview

First published in 1978, this tempestuous saga of 1830s Australia and the pioneers who risked everything to tame a continent, is available once again. Reissue. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843946865
• ISBN13: 9780843946864
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

outback

This is a wonderful story about an aboringal girl named Mayrah who was traded away to a white man named Patrick Garrity,how they made a life together through incredible hardship, and eventually raised a family and became land barons of the Australian Outback. It is a sad and heroic novel that will keep you turning the pages as each character unfolds and crosses paths with Mayrah and Patrick Garrity, its a love story and a very compelling look at the life and challengers of living or running a sheep station. I will definately read other books from this author and hope they are as good as this one, well done growing up in Australia and visiting a sheep station in my childhood I especially can relate to the isolation these people endured although today life is so much easier than they ever knew.

Incredible - wonderful story.

From the very first page I was hooked. You can see above what the story is about, but this is so much more than just a story. The level of detail was incredible and the friendships and hardships are painstakingly described. Immediately you are THERE. The Australian Outback is so beautifully portrayed in all it's glories and evils. Highly recommended.

Strong Women

This book is about an aborigine wormen who helps a white man, who is the son of a convict. This man was as a boy sent to an orphanage then adopted by a man to tend sheep. With the help of this woman he became the largest sheep station owner in the outback. Their children, who were half abo, were strong in their own ways but it was their daughter,Sheila, who was the strongest. She befriends a city woman Elizabeth, and between them a strong friendship is kindled fueled by the aborigine woman, Mayrah. As the original owner, Pat Garrity and his abo wife die, Sheila and Elizabeth take over the running of the station. Sheila is known to be tough, but Elizabeth gets a stronger reputation. By the end of the book, all fear the wrath of Elizabeth, who is the most fearsome sheep rancher in all the outback. In the final chapters the son of Sheila returns to the staion to find that Elizabeth is matchmaking with a relative from England who she is fashioning in her own image to be the next baroness of Wayamba Station.

I want to go

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.

A novel of the English settlement of Australia

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.