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Published by Doubleday Australia, 1985
ISBN 10: 086824130XISBN 13: 9780868241302
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 383 pages. In the 1850s Australia was a land of fertile promi se and bitter truths, a wilderness that could only be tamed by pr oud men and passionate women like the Broomes and Tempests. It wa s also a land with a secret--a secret that would be revealed with the discovery of gold in the rugged hills and desolate outback. With that discovery Australia became a mecca for men like Luke Mu rphy--questing, adventurous, torn between the lure of wealth and the dictates of his heart. And for men like Jasper Morgan--unscru pulous brigands for whom gold was a hunger so consuming, it justi fied every excess, every savagery, every sin.