Whistler's Bones: A Novel of the Australian Frontier by Greg Barron

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Signed by author.

Based on a true story - the life of stockman, drover and adventurer, Charlie Gaunt, who, as an old man in the 1930s, wrote of his adventures in the Northern Standard newspaper.

Leaving Bendigo for the droving life at the age of fifteen, Charlie, two years later, signed on with one of Australia's greatest cattle drives -- the Durack family's epic journey from Cooper's Creek, Queensland, to the Kimberley, Western Australia.

This book includes a fictionalised account of that journey, and of his droving life in Northern Australia, as well as fictionalised accounts of violent encounters with indigenous peoples of Northern Australia.