Salt Creek

Resource Information

The work Salt Creek represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Salt Creek

Statement of responsibility

Lucy Treloar

Creator

• trueTreloar, Lucy

Author

• trueTreloar, Lucy

Subject

• Large print books
• Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- South Australia | Coorong, The -- Fiction
• Coorong, The (S.A.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Ngarrindjeri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- South Australia | Coorong, The -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Frontier and pioneer life -- South Australia | Coorong, The -- Fiction

Genre

• Large print books
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Salt Creek, 1855, lies at the far reaches of the remote, beautiful and inhospitable coastal region, the Coorong, in the new province of South Australia. The area, just opened to graziers willing to chance their luck, becomes home to Stanton Finch and his large family, including fifteen-year-old Hester Finch. Once wealthy political activists, the Finch family has fallen on hard times. Cut adrift from the polite society they were raised to be part of, Hester and her siblings make connections where they can: with the few travellers that pass along the nearby stock route -- among them a young artist, Charles -- and the Ngarrindjeri people they have dispossessed. Over the years that pass, an Aboriginal boy, Tully, at first a friend, becomes part of the family. Stanton's attempts to tame the harsh landscape bring ruin to the Ngarrindjeri people's homes and livelihoods, and unleash a chain of events that will tear the family asunder. As Hester witnesses the destruction of the Ngarrindjeri's subtle culture and the ideals that her family once held so close, she begins to wonder what civilisation is. Was it for this life and this world that she was educated?

Cataloging source

QRML

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction