Dark Tales From the Long River: A Bloody History of Australia's North-West Frontier by David Price

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamp and RFID patch on inside pages. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly to front cover right corners, now protected with book tape. Body text and binding are still very good.

The nine true stories of murder, dispossession, violence and misadventure contained in the book all took place in the Gascoyne region during the thirty-three year tenure of Magistrate C D V Foss, which ended in 1915.

Accounts from a wide array of contemporary newspapers illuminate these events and expose the dark side of our colonial history. They show how the policing and the justice system were used not only to track down serial murders and petty criminals, but also to subjugate Aboriginal peoples and persecute migrants from Asia - and how many felt compelled to take the law into their own hands. (back cove)