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On a barbarous coast, what if there was an alternative ending to Captain Cook's story?, Craig Cormack and Harold Ludwick

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On a barbarous coast, what if there was an alternative ending to Captain Cook's story?, Craig Cormack and Harold Ludwick

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

On a barbarous coast

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Craig Cormack and Harold Ludwick

Sub title

what if there was an alternative ending to Captain Cook's story?

Summary

We were becoming the wild things we most feared, but could not see it at the time. On a night of raging winds and rain, Captain Cook's Endeavour lies splintered on a coral reef off the coast of far north Australia. A small disparate band of survivors, fracturing already, huddle on the shore of this strange land th,eir pitiful salvage scant protection from the dangers of the unknown creatures and natives that live here. Watching these mysterious white beings, the Guugu Yimidhirr people cannot decide if they are ancestor spirits to be welcomed, or hostile spirits to be speared. One headstrong young boy, Garrgiil, determines to do more than watch and to be the one to find out what exactly they are. Fierce, intriguing and thoughtful, On a Barbarous Coast is the story of a past and future that might have been

Target audience

adult

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