Territory: A story of the Top End and the people who dare to dwell there
by Judy Nunn
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0857981668
- ISBN 13
- 9780857981660
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He didn't talk of the war or the missions he'd flown, but of his home in Australia. The Northern Territory, he called it. And the cattle station. 'Bullalalla'. She thought it was a beautiful name.
Territory is the story of Henrietta Southern, a young Englishwoman who trades her war-torn homeland for a place of wild tropical storms and searing heat, crocodile-infested rivers and barren red wilderness. Six months after the bombing of Darwin, she joins her new husband, Spitfire pilot Terence Galloway, at his family cattle station as he continues to serve in the desperate defence of the Top End against the Imperial Japanese Air Force.
It is also the story of their sons. Of Malcolm and Kit, two brothers who grow up in the harsh but beautiful environment, and share a baptism of fire as young men in the jungles of Vietnam.
And what of the Dutch East Indies treasure ship which foundered off Western Australia in 1629? How is the Galloway family's destiny linked with Batavia's horrific tale of mutiny and murder...?
From the blazing inferno that was Darwin on 19 February 1942 to the devastation of Cyclone Tracy, from the red desert to the tropical shore, Territory is a mile-a-minute read from one of Australia's best loved writers.
He didn't talk of the war or the missions he'd flown, but of his home in Australia. The Northern Territory, he called it. And the cattle station. 'Bullalalla'. She thought it was a beautiful name.
Territory is the story of Henrietta Southern, a young Englishwoman who trades her war-torn homeland for a place of wild tropical storms and searing heat, crocodile-infested rivers and barren red wilderness. Six months after the bombing of Darwin, she joins her new husband, Spitfire pilot Terence Galloway, at his family cattle station as he continues to serve in the desperate defence of the Top End against the Imperial Japanese Air Force.
It is also the story of their sons. Of Malcolm and Kit, two brothers who grow up in the harsh but beautiful environment, and share a baptism of fire as young men in the jungles of Vietnam.
And what of the Dutch East Indies treasure ship which foundered off Western Australia in 1629? How is the Galloway family's destiny linked with Batavia's horrific tale of mutiny and murder...?
From the blazing inferno that was Darwin on 19 February 1942 to the devastation of Cyclone Tracy, from the red desert to the tropical shore, Territory is a mile-a-minute read from one of Australia's best loved writers.
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"An arrow book"--T.p. verso.
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- Bookseller
- DASHbooks (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Territory
- Author
- Judy Nunn
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0857981668
- ISBN 13
- 9780857981660
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- judy nunn, family saga, novel, territory, a story of the top end and the people who dare to dwell there, darwin, second world war, bombing, england, australia, 1942, henrietta southern,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novel; Family Saga;
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