Dimensions
114 x 180 x 41mm
A priceless 16th Century locket threads two riveting stories together in this saga set in and around Darwin, Australia's ultimate frontier town.
The legendary tale of the Batavia, the Dutch treasure ship which foundered off Western Australia in 1629, leaving its passengers trapped in a horrific nightmare of mutiny and depravity, is told in alternating chapters with the story of the Galloway family, whose fate is bound up in the story of Darwin itself.
Spitfire pilot Terence Galloway is in the air fighting the Japanese the day Darwin is bombed by the Imperial Japanese Air Force during World War II; his sons Malcolm and Kit fight for survival when Australian young men are sent to the jungles of war-torn Vietnam; and the Galloways are forced to fight for their lives on that extraordinary Christmas Day in 1974 when Darwin is again devastated by 'fury from the sky', this time in the form of Cyclone Tracy.
From the blazing inferno that was Darwin on 19 February 1942 to the devastation of Cyclone Tracy, from the red desert to the tropical shore, 'Territory' is a mile-a-minute read from one of Australia's best loved writers.
