The burning land

By John Fletcher and John Hunter

An engrossing historical saga in the tradition of Evan Green and Wilbur Smith .477. a story as big as Australia. Matthew Curtis is born in Goulburn, New South Wales. He loses his parents and is brought up by struggling Scottish immigrants, Lorna and Andrew McLachlan, who try to prise a living from the raw new land. Restless by nature, and spurred by the deep antagonism of his foster-father, he leaves home €" and his first love, Catriona €" to work on a sheep run in the Port Phillip district. But not long after, gold is discovered in Victoria, and Matthew travels to the goldfields of Mount Alexander accompanied by Janice Honeyman, a generous, adventurous and beautiful woman desperate to escape the drudgery of the small town she was raised in. Success on the goldfields is not enough, however, and Matthew's restless spirit eventually sees him taking a mob of cattle into the unexplored Channel Country of south-west Queensland. But the inland is not only a place of wide open spaces and dramatic beauty: it is also a place where drought can ruin rich and poor alike, and where desperate men taking refuge from the law can prey on the unwary.477. A gripping picture of the danger, heartbreak, courage and passion experienced by Australia's pioneers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 009183452X
• ISBN13: 9780091834524
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Arrow
• Length: 654 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 4.5" x 7.2"