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The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
Ringwood
New York (City)
:
Viking
,
1996
Z287862
1996
single work
novel
historical fiction
(taught in 1 units)
'Tracing the lead-up to and aftermath of a bloody showdown when the superintendent of a Queensland mission goes on a murderous rampage.
'In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife’s death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead.
'The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody showdown and the repercussions in the years after - for Aboriginal people and the colonial overseers.' (Publication summary)
Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2018
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y
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
Ringwood
New York (City)
:
Viking
,
1996
Z287862
1996
single work
novel
historical fiction
(taught in 1 units)
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