Salt creek, Lucy Treloar
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Salt creek, Lucy Treloar
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-402)
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Salt creek
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911430474
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Lucy Treloar
Summary
Salt Creek, 1855, lies at the far reaches of the remote, beautiful and inhospitable coastal region, the Coorong, in the new province of South Australia. The area, just opened to graziers willing to chance their luck, becomes home to Stanton Finch and his large family, including fifteen-year-old Hester Finch. Once wealthy political activists, the Finch family has fallen on hard times. Cut adrift from the polite society they were raised to be part of, Hester and her siblings make connections where they can: with the few travellers that pass along the nearby stock route -- among them a young artist, Charles -- and the Ngarrindjeri people they have dispossessed. Over the years that pass, an Aboriginal boy, Tully, at first a friend, becomes part of the family. Stanton's attempts to tame the harsh landscape bring ruin to the Ngarrindjeri people's homes and livelihoods, and unleash a chain of events that will tear the family asunder. As Hester witnesses the destruction of the Ngarrindjeri's subtle culture and the ideals that her family once held so close, she begins to wonder what civilization is. Was it for this life and this world that she was educated?
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- Frontier and pioneer life -- South Australia -- Coorong, The -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Ngarrindjeri (Australian people) + Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Coorong, The (S.Aust.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- South Australia -- Coorong, The -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- South Australia -- Fiction
- Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Coorong, The (S.A.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Ngarrindjeri (Australian people) -- South Australia -- Coorong, The -- Fiction
- Narrinyeri (Australian people) + Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- South Australia -- Coorong, The -- Fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Coorong, The (S.A.) -- Fiction
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- Frontier and pioneer life -- South Australia -- Coorong, The -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Ngarrindjeri (Australian people) + Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Coorong, The (S.Aust.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- South Australia -- Coorong, The -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- South Australia -- Fiction
- Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Coorong, The (S.A.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Ngarrindjeri (Australian people) -- South Australia -- Coorong, The -- Fiction
- Narrinyeri (Australian people) + Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- South Australia -- Coorong, The -- Fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Coorong, The (S.A.) -- Fiction
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