Cry of the Curlew: The Frontier Series 1

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Pan Australia, Aug 1, 2000 - Fiction - 720 pages

The first bestselling novel in the compelling Duffy and Macintosh series, depicting our turbulent history as never before.

"The home grown version of Wilbur Smith" The Sunday Age

A stark and vivid novel of Australia's brutal past.

An epic tale of two families, the Macintoshes and the Duffys, who are locked in a deadly battle from the moment squatter Donald Macintosh commits an act of barbarity on his Queensland property.

Their paths cross in love, death and revenge as both families fight to tame the wild frontier of Australia's north country.

PRAISE FOR THE SERIES

"A rousing and revealing yarn" Weekend Australian

"the historical detail brings the ... 19th century to rip-roaring life" The Australian

"Watt's fans love his work for its history, adventure and storytelling" Brisbane News

 

Selected pages

Contents

About the Author
Three
Five
Silent Echoes in the Dark
Eight
Twelve
Thirteen
Fifteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

Peter has been a soldier, articled clerk to a solicitor, prawn trawler deckhand, builder's labourer, pipe layer, real estate salesman, private investigator, police sergeant and adviser to the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. He has lived and worked with Aboriginal people, Pacific Islander people, Vietnamese and Papuans and speaks, reads and writes Vietnamese and Pidgin. He now lives at Maclean, on the Clarence River in northern New South Wales. He is a volunteer firefighter with the Rural Fire service, and is interested in fishing and the vast opens spaces of outback Queensland.

Bibliographic information

TitleCry of the Curlew: The Frontier Series 1
AuthorPeter Watt
PublisherPan Australia, 2000
ISBN1742629288, 9781742629285
Length720 pages
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