WHISTLER'S BONES. A NOVEL OF THE AUSTRALIAN FRONTIER - Tecno-Libro

. At the age of fifteen, Charlie left his home in Bendigo and signed on as a drover with Nat Buchanan. Two years later he was a key man on one of Australia s greatest cattle drives the Durack family s two-year journey from Cooper s Creek, Queensland to the Kimberley. Stumbling on Charlie s largely unknown story, and filling in the gaps with fiction, the author has created a novel unique in Australian literature. An unprecedented adventure, and a passionate love story Whistler's Bones .is both a celebration of the good things in the settlement of Northern Australia and a damning indictment of the bad.