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The secret river

Summary: In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale of William and Sal’s deep love for their small, exotic corner of the new world, and William’s gradual realization that if he wants to make a home for his family, he must forcibly take the land from the people who came before him.

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  • ISBN: 0006395384 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780006395386 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780002005982
  • ISBN: 0002005980 :
  • ISBN: 9780002005982 :
  • ISBN: 0002005980
  • Physical Description: 334 p. ; 25 cm.
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  • Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
  • Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins, 2006, c2005.
Subject: New South Wales -- Fiction
New South Wales -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Transportation -- Fiction
Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
Nineteenth century -- Fiction
Land tenure -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Fiction
Penal colonies -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Australian fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.

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Summary: In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale of William and Sal’s deep love for their small, exotic corner of the new world, and William’s gradual realization that if he wants to make a home for his family, he must forcibly take the land from the people who came before him.
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