Landtakers: The Story Of An Epoch
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
A landmark of Australian historical fiction, Land-Takers chronicles the brutal and unrelenting struggle of Derek Cabell, a young English immigrant who arrives in colonial Queensland in the 1840s determined to carve out a pastoral empire from the untamed wilderness. Penton's narrative unflinchingly details the violence, moral compromise, and raw ambition required to seize and hold land in a frontier society where survival demands ruthlessness. The novel presents a deliberately unsentimental portrait of the pioneering era, stripping away the romantic mythology of Australian settlement to expose the greed and savagery that underpinned it. Written in a stark, muscular prose style, it stands as the first volume of Penton's Landtakers trilogy and remains a provocative and enduring work of Australian literature that refuses to glorify its deeply flawed protagonist.
Author: Brian Penton
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Angus and Robertson
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
A landmark of Australian historical fiction, Land-Takers chronicles the brutal and unrelenting struggle of Derek Cabell, a young English immigrant who arrives in colonial Queensland in the 1840s determined to carve out a pastoral empire from the untamed wilderness. Penton's narrative unflinchingly details the violence, moral compromise, and raw ambition required to seize and hold land in a frontier society where survival demands ruthlessness. The novel presents a deliberately unsentimental portrait of the pioneering era, stripping away the romantic mythology of Australian settlement to expose the greed and savagery that underpinned it. Written in a stark, muscular prose style, it stands as the first volume of Penton's Landtakers trilogy and remains a provocative and enduring work of Australian literature that refuses to glorify its deeply flawed protagonist.