Territory

A Breathtaking Story Of Disaster, Courage And Passion And That Top End Spirit That Never Says Die. Territory Is The Story Of Henrietta Southern, A Young Englishwoman Who Trades Her War-torn Homeland For A Place Of Wild Tropical Storms And Searing Heat, Crocodile-infested Rivers And Barren Red Wilderness. Six Months After The Bombing Of Darwin, She Joins Her New Husband, Spitfire Pilot Terence Galloway, For A New Life On His Northern Territory Cattle Station. It Is Also The Story Of Their Sons. Of Malcolm And Kit, Two Brothers Who Grow Up In The Harsh But Beautiful Environment, And Share A Baptism Of Fire As Young Men In The Jungles Of Vietnam. And What Of The Dutch East Indies Treasure Ship Which Foundered Off Western Australia In 1629? How Is The Galloway Family's Destiny Linked With Batavia's Horrific Tale Of Mutiny And Murder ...? From The Blazing Inferno That Was Darwin On 19 February 1942 To The Devastation Of Cyclone Tracy, From The Red Desert To The Tropical Shore, Territory Is A Mile-a-minute Read From One Of Australia's Best Loved Writers. A breathtaking story of disaster, courage and passion and that Top End spirit that never says die. JOURNEY TO AUSTRALIA When Henrietta Southern trades war-torn England for Australia's Northern Territory, with its crocodile-infested rivers and red wilderness, she embarks on a new life on her husband, Spitfire pilot Terence Galloway's cattle station, six months after the bombing of Darwin. BROTHERS IN ARMS Their sons, Malcolm and Kit, grow up in this rugged land, must soon face their own trials in the jungles of Vietnam, shaped by the harsh yet beautiful world around them. MYSTERY AND MUTINY Tangled in the Galloway's story is the enigma of a Dutch East Indies treasure ship which foundered off Western Australia in 1629, its legacy of mutiny and murder rippling through time to touch their lives in unforeseen and dramatic ways. A SAGA OF SURVIVAL From the blazing inferno that was Darwin on 19 February 1942 to the devastation of Cyclone Tracy, from the red desert to the tropical shore, Territory is a mile-a-minute read from one of Australia's best loved writers. ——————————— 'Mistress of the ripping yarn.' SUN-HERALD '500 pages of perfect reading.' AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY 'Perfect summer reading.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 'A master of what she does.' WEEKLY TIMES 'A stunning blockbuster.' WOMAN'S DAY 'A prolific writer of bestsellers.' THE AGE A priceless 16th century locket threads two stories together in this saga. Commissioned by a Dutch noblewoman as a gift to her beloved, the locket becomes a symbol of strength and inspiration for a woman as she struggles to survive the tragic wreck of the Batavia off the West Australian coast, and endure the hideous events that followed. By the time the survivors were rescued from the small island on which they had sought shelter, they were either speechless with horror or had been driven mad by the atrocities they had witnessed. A young passenger resolves to escape and is given the locket as a good luck charm. The story is told in alternating chapters with the story of the Galloway family, station owners, and the story of Darwin itself, from the day it was bombed by Japanese fighter planes during WW2 and nearly flattened, to that extraordinary Christmas Day in 1974 when Darwin was again devastated by fury from the sky: this time in the form of Cyclone Tracey