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Author Nunn, Judy author.
Title Territory / Judy Nunn.
Edition Arrow edition.
Published North Sydney, N.S.W. :
Random House Australia,
2011.,
North Sydney, N.S.W.
Arrow,
2011.
©2002
Description 618 pages ; 20 cm.
General Note "A story of the top end and the people who dare to dwell there"--Cover.
"First published by Random House Australia 2002, this Arrow edition published 2003, 2007"--T. p. verso.
Previously published: Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Arrow Australia, 2003.
Summary A priceless 16th century locket threads two riveting stories together in this saga set in and around Darwin, Australias ultimate frontier town. Commissioned by a Dutch noblewoman as a gift to her beloved, the locket becomes a symbol of strength and inspiration for the woman as she struggles to survive the tragic wreck of the Batavia off the West Australian coast, and endure the hideous events that followed. By the time the survivors were rescued from the small island on which they had sought shelter they were either speechless with horror or had been driven mad by the atrocities they had witnessed. A young passenger resolves to escape and is given the locket as a good luck charm. This legendary story of disaster and depravity is told in alternating chapters with the story of the Galloway family, station owners, and the story of Darwin itself, from the day it was bombed by Japanese fighter planes during WW2 and nearly flattened, to that extraordinary Christmas Day in 1974 when Darwin was again devastated by fury from the sky: this time in the form of Cyclone Tracey. Following the course of the locket and the fortunes of the Galloway clan, Judy Nunn tells a breathtaking story of disaster, courage and passion and that Top End spirit that never says die.
Subjects Australian fiction -- 21st century
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Darwin -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese
Underwater exploration -- Western Australia -- Fiction
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Australia -- Fiction
Lockets -- Australia -- Fiction
Shipwrecks -- Western Australia -- Fiction
Darwin (N.T.) -- History -- 20th century
Darwin (N.T.) -- Social life and customs
Darwin (N.T.) -- History -- Bombardment, 1942
Darwin (N.T.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Darwin (N.T.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genre Australian fiction
Historical fiction
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