The Dreams of Eddie Skinner by Murray McNair

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Inscribed by author.

Eddie Skinner has escaped his miserable fishing home town of Hull, is in love with Charlotte Stephgenson and plays polo on the sandy wastes of the new river-mouth town of Fremantle.

When the Governor of the Swan River Settlement sends his North East Fusiliers regement to attack the Binjareb Nyungar people, Eddie's world collaspes. He losses his love, his freedom and the dream of becoming a yeoman farmer.

He spends years as a fugitive and a prisoner in colonial gaols but survives it all to take up a lifestyle he could never have imagined as a twenty-three-year-old colonial trooper. (back cover)

A fictionalised account of the 1834 Pinjarra Massacre.