The Timeless Land
by Eleanor Dark
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appears in About Sydney and Fiction.
First published in 1941, Eleanor Dark's classic novel of the early settlement of Australia is a story of hardship, cruelty and danger. Above all it is the story of conflict: between the Aborigines and the white settlers. In this dramatic novel, a large cast of characters, historical and fictional, black and white, convict and settler, brings alive ...
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appears in About Sydney and Fiction.
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