Book description
When Englishman Eyre Walker, newly arrived in Australia, meets the
beautiful Charlotte Lindsay, romance quickly blossoms. But theirs is a
relationship with fatal consequences. When a late-night tryst is
interrupted by Charlotte's irate father, Walker's young Aborigine
servant is brutally killed by guard dogs. A man with a conscience,
Walker is anxious to atone for the boy's death by giving him a proper
Aboriginal burial. And so he begins a marathon journey into the outback
to search for Corroboree, the gathering of nomadic tribes for the
age-old ritual. The expedition that he mounts is sponsored by Captain
Sturt, a celebrated explorer who believes a huge ocean lies in the
middle of Australia. But Walker finds something else in the middle of
that vast continent, and the price he must pay for surviving it will
scar him for life... When Englishman Eyre Walker, newly arrived in
Australia, meets the beautiful Charlotte Lindsay, romance quickly
blossoms. But theirs is a relationship with fatal consequences. When a
late-night tryst is interrupted by Charlotte's irate father, Walker's
young Aborigine servant is brutally killed by guard dogs. A man with a
conscience, Walker is anxious to atone for the boy's death by giving him
a proper Aboriginal burial. And so he begins a marathon journey into the
outback to search for Corroboree, the gathering of nomadic tribes for
the age-old ritual. The expedition that he mounts is sponsored by
Captain Sturt, a celebrated explorer who believes a huge ocean lies in
the middle of Australia. But Walker finds something else in the middle
of that vast continent, and the price he must pay for surviving it will
scar him for life...
