Whistler's Bones: A Novel of the Australian Frontier

At the age of fifteen Charlie left his home in Bendigo and signed on as a drover with Nat Buchanan. Two years later he was a key man on one of Australias greatest cattle drives - the Durack familys two-year journey from Coopers Creek Queensland - to the Kimberley. Stumbling on Charlies largely unknown story and filling in the gaps with fiction the author has created a novel unique in Australian literature. An unprecedented adventure and a passionate love story - Whistlers Bones is both a celebration of the good things in the settlement of Northern Australia - and a damning indictment of the bad.