The naked country / Michael East.
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TextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2017Copyright date: ©1960Description: 201 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760297589; 1760297585Subject(s): Cattle ranches -- Northern Territory -- Fiction | Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction | Northern Territory -- FictionGenre/Form: Action and adventure fiction. | Australian fiction. DDC classification: A823.3 Summary: Lance Dillon is owner of a new cattle station on the southern fringe of Australia's Arnhem Land. When an Aboriginal hunting party targets Dillon's prize bull for a ritual killing, and then spears Dillon in the shoulder, it's clear they want him off their traditional land.Under the merciless rays of the burning sun, the wounded Dillon flees into the bush, with expert tracker Mundaru in hot pursuit. Dillon's city-born wife Mary and handsome local policeman Neil Adams set out to search for her husband. The gruelling journey throws them together, and it is not long before each is secretly hoping that Dillon is never found alive.The Naked Country is a terrifying manhunt set in one of the harshest and most remote regions of the world.
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Originally published: Great Britain : William Heinemann Ltd, 1960.
Lance Dillon is owner of a new cattle station on the southern fringe of Australia's Arnhem Land. When an Aboriginal hunting party targets Dillon's prize bull for a ritual killing, and then spears Dillon in the shoulder, it's clear they want him off their traditional land.Under the merciless rays of the burning sun, the wounded Dillon flees into the bush, with expert tracker Mundaru in hot pursuit. Dillon's city-born wife Mary and handsome local policeman Neil Adams set out to search for her husband. The gruelling journey throws them together, and it is not long before each is secretly hoping that Dillon is never found alive.The Naked Country is a terrifying manhunt set in one of the harshest and most remote regions of the world.
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