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Hollywood on the Hawkesbury.(Hawkesbury Valley)(The Secret River)(Book review)
HOW FAR SHOULD an historical novel stick to the ascertainable truth? The short answer is that I don't know, nor does anybody else. However, I find it irritating and disappointing when a novel departs from a record I am familiar with.
Presumably there must be some simplification and heightening for effect and a degree of guesstimation to fill in the gaps. But a best-selling novel like Kate Grenville's The Secret River is all most people will ever know about a particular situation, and illustrates many a point.
I found it a fairly good, accurate representation of life among the ex-convict small farmers of the Sydney region in the early nineteenth century, ...
- Grenville, Kate. The secret river.(CDs)(Young adult review)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Purucker, Mary January 1, 2007 700+ words
GRENVILLE, Kate. The secret river. Read by SimonVance. 9 cds. 11 hrs. Blackstone Audiobooks...Australia, he has another chance to succeed. Conflicts with the aborigines, whose rights are being impinged upon, cause much hardship...
- Kate Grenville: The Secret River.(English Books)
- Magazine article from: Swiss News April 1, 2006 700+ words
...Grenville takes us back to her native Australia at the beginning of the 19th century, when the only residents were either Aborigines or convicts. As the colonials divide the land among themselves, the conflict over ownership escalates to a bloody conflict...
- From Aborigine neighborhoods, cries rise for Freeman.(The Dallas Morning News)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Blackistone, Kevin B. September 25, 2000 700+ words
...neighborhood Aborigines, whooped and...and yellow Aborigine flag as Freeman...t the first Aborigine athletic hero...And still Aborigines suffered...Olympics, some Aborigines urged Freeman and fellow Aborigine Olympic athletes...
- Black and blue: Australia. (aborigines)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 2, 1992 700+ words
...Fosters too many, but aborigines are not so fortunate...in jail rose by 25%. Aborigines make up about 1.5...detention centres are aborigine. Even Aussies with no great feelings for aborigines were shocked recently...
- Native unrest: battle over land rights between aborigines and ranchers...
- Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication January 23, 1998 700+ words
...Australia's history that Aborigines owned the land before...in the late 1700s. Aborigine groups have since filed...the national court. Aborigines number about 300...In other cases, the Aborigines want land back...Europeans," said one Aborigine leader. "Our land...
- Olympics allow Aborigines to take the stage in Sydney.(By Moryt Milo)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Milo, Moryt September 13, 2000 700+ words
...to the Olympics in Sydney, the Aborigines will have a unique opportunity to press their legitimate claims. Aborigines represent only 2 percent of Australia...music, dance, art and dream lore. Aborigines lived in close-knit clans and...
- Should Australian aborigines succumb to capitalism?
- Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues Grant, Randy R. Kleiber, Kandice L. McAllister, Charles E. June 1, 2005 700+ words
...For more than 50,000 years Aborigines (1) successfully inhabited...settlers forever changed the Aborigine reality, introducing diseases...question, "Should Australian Aborigines succumb to capitalism...however, "What path should Aborigines take to preserve their culture...
- White apathy 'is killing Aborigines'
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Robert Milliken in Alice Springs May 28, 1995 700+ words
...scandals, the deplorable state of its Aborigines' health. The issue has been overshadowed...strides on other fronts, such as the Aborigines' victory in their 200-year battle...state governments aimed at bringing Aborigines' health up to the same standard as...
