Spring Book Reviews
Aug 30, 2018
4 minutes
by Mark Laurie of South Seas Books, Port Elliot
The Fierce Country: True Stories from Australia’s Unsettled Heart, 1830 to today
by Stephen Orr
Published by Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781743055748
$27.95
Stephen Orr has compiled a series of short, true stories of our confrontation with the country’s arid centre and the conflicts between us it has borne witness to. Channelling the antipathy and fear which dominated the European settler reaction to Australia’s hostile geography from the beginning, he presents us with a harsh landscape beyond the edge of ready habitation and the characters who cross over into it. The stories he tells are of people
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