The Resource The making of Martin Sparrow, Peter Cochrane
The making of Martin Sparrow, Peter Cochrane
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- Summary
- Martin Sparrow is already struggling when the Hawkesbury's great flood of March 1806 lays waste to him and his farm. Luckless, lovelorn and deep in debt, the ex-convict is confronted with a choice. He can buckle down and set about his agricultural recovery, or he can heed the whispers of an earthly paradise on the far side of the mountains - a place where men are truly free - and strike out for a new life. But what chance of renewal is there for a man like Sparrow in either the brutal colony or the forbidding wilderness? The decision he makes triggers a harrowing chain of events and draws in a cast of extraordinary characters, including Alister Mackie, the chief constable on the river; his deputy, Thaddeus Cuff; the vicious hunter, Griffin Pinney; the Romany girl, Bea Faa; and the young Aboriginal men, Caleb and Moowut'tin, caught between war and peace. Set against the awe-inspiring immensity of the hinterland west of the Hawkesbury River, this epic of chance and endurance is an immersion into another time, a masterpiece of language and atmosphere. Rich, raw, strangely beautiful and utterly convincing, The Making of Martin Sparrow reveals Peter Cochrane - already one of our leading historians - as one of our most compelling novelists
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 453 pages
- Note
- "After the flood comes the reckoning"--Cover
- Isbn
- 9780670074068
- Label
- The making of Martin Sparrow
- Title
- The making of Martin Sparrow
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Cochrane
- Subject
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- Ex-convicts -- Fiction
- Farmers -- Fiction
- Farmers -- New South Wales -- History -- Fiction
- trueFarms
- trueFloods
- Floods -- Fiction
- trueFormer convicts
- trueFrontier and pioneer life
- Frontier and pioneer life -- New South Wales | Hawkesbury River Region -- Fiction
- Hawkesbury River Region (N.S.W.) -- History -- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Men -- New South Wales -- Fiction
- trueNew South Wales -- History
- New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction
- New South Wales -- Social life and customs -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction
- trueOptions, alternatives, choices
- Police -- Fiction
- trueRedemption
- trueSecrets
- trueWilderness areas
- Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueAustralia -- History -- 19th century
- trueAustralian
- Australian fiction
- Convicts -- Australia -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Martin Sparrow is already struggling when the Hawkesbury's great flood of March 1806 lays waste to him and his farm. Luckless, lovelorn and deep in debt, the ex-convict is confronted with a choice. He can buckle down and set about his agricultural recovery, or he can heed the whispers of an earthly paradise on the far side of the mountains - a place where men are truly free - and strike out for a new life. But what chance of renewal is there for a man like Sparrow in either the brutal colony or the forbidding wilderness? The decision he makes triggers a harrowing chain of events and draws in a cast of extraordinary characters, including Alister Mackie, the chief constable on the river; his deputy, Thaddeus Cuff; the vicious hunter, Griffin Pinney; the Romany girl, Bea Faa; and the young Aboriginal men, Caleb and Moowut'tin, caught between war and peace. Set against the awe-inspiring immensity of the hinterland west of the Hawkesbury River, this epic of chance and endurance is an immersion into another time, a masterpiece of language and atmosphere. Rich, raw, strangely beautiful and utterly convincing, The Making of Martin Sparrow reveals Peter Cochrane - already one of our leading historians - as one of our most compelling novelists
- Award
- Librarians' Choice (Australia), 2018.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10638120
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cochrane, Peter
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ex-convicts
- Farmers
- Floods
- Police
- Men
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Farmers
- Convicts
- Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.)
- Hawkesbury River Region (N.S.W.)
- New South Wales
- New South Wales
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The making of Martin Sparrow, Peter Cochrane
- Note
- "After the flood comes the reckoning"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000061140469
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 453 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670074068
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1011671476
- Label
- The making of Martin Sparrow, Peter Cochrane
- Note
- "After the flood comes the reckoning"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000061140469
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 453 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670074068
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1011671476
Subject
- Ex-convicts -- Fiction
- Farmers -- Fiction
- Farmers -- New South Wales -- History -- Fiction
- trueFarms
- trueFloods
- Floods -- Fiction
- trueFormer convicts
- trueFrontier and pioneer life
- Frontier and pioneer life -- New South Wales | Hawkesbury River Region -- Fiction
- Hawkesbury River Region (N.S.W.) -- History -- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Men -- New South Wales -- Fiction
- trueNew South Wales -- History
- New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction
- New South Wales -- Social life and customs -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction
- trueOptions, alternatives, choices
- Police -- Fiction
- trueRedemption
- trueSecrets
- trueWilderness areas
- Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueAustralia -- History -- 19th century
- trueAustralian
- Australian fiction
- Convicts -- Australia -- Fiction
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