Capricornia
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Capricornia
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Narrated by:
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Humphrey Bower
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By:
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Xavier Herbert
About this listen
Spanning three generations‚ Capricornia tells the story of Australia's North. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians‚ of chance relationships that can form bonds for life‚ of dispossession‚ murder and betrayal.
In 1904 the brothers Oscar and Mark Shillingsworth‚ clad in serge suits and bowler hats‚ arrive in Port Zodiac on the coast of Capricornia. They are clerks who have come from the South to join the Capricornian Government Service. Oscar prospers‚ and takes to his new life as a gentleman. Mark‚ however‚ is restless‚ and takes up with old Ned Krater‚ a trepang fisherman‚ who tells him tales of the sea and the islands‚ introduces him to drink‚ and boasts of his conquests of Aboriginal women - or 'Black Velvet'‚ as they are called. But it is Mark's son‚ Norman‚ whose struggles to find a place in the world, who embodies the complexities of Capricornia itself.
©1938 Xavier Herbert Estate 1985. Introduction copyright Mudrooroo 1990. The right of Xavier Herbert to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted under the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000. First published in Australia by Publicist Publishing Company, Sydney in. Second Australian edition published by Angus & Robertson. Subsequent Australian editions in either hardback or paperback were published by Angus & Robertson in 1939, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1956, 1959, 1963 (twice), 1969, 1970, Imprints Classics edition 1990, Angus & Robertson Classics edition 1996 and 2002. 2008 edition published by HarperCollins Publishers. (P)2009 Bolinda Publishing