Skins
Record details
- ISBN: 1741151279 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781741151275 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource - Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2002.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Winner, The Australian/Vogel Literary Award"--Cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Airplane crash survival -- Fiction Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction Sealers (Persons) -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Fiction Western Australia -- Fiction FICTION -- Historical |
Genre: | EBOOK. Electronic books. Historical fiction. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
Shipwrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1835, Dorothea Newell is marooned on Middle Island with other survivors. Stranded, they seek shelter in a sealers' camp. The desolate environment of the island camp is a place where men from all corners of the globe struggle to trade seal skins, and the appearance of women-rare commodities in that place and time-opens a further form of trade. As a desperate means of survival, Dorothea is forced into an alliance with the camp's fierce leader ...