Shallows / Tim Winton.
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TextPublication details: Sydney : Unwin Paperbacks, 1985Description: xi, 235 p. ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0868618004 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Whaling -- Western Australia -- Fiction | Women environmentalists -- Western Australia -- Fiction | Detective and mystery stories, Australian | Whaling | Wildlife conservation | Australian fiction -- 20th century | Whaling -- Australia -- Fiction | Wildlife conservation -- Australia -- Fiction | Western Australia -- Fiction | AustraliaGenre/Form: Fiction. | Australiana DDC classification: A823/.3 | DA823.3 LOC classification: PR8279.I57 | S4 1985Summary: Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passing defines the rhythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begins on the beaches outside the town, and when Queenie Cookson, a local girl, joins the Greenies to make amends for the crimes of her whaling ancestors, it can only throw everything into chaos.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F WIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | AL42000050229B |
First published in hard cover: Sydney : George Allen & Unwin, 1984.
Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual passing defines the rhythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begins on the beaches outside the town, and when Queenie Cookson, a local girl, joins the Greenies to make amends for the crimes of her whaling ancestors, it can only throw everything into chaos.
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