Word: capricornia
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...CAPRICORNIA - Xavier Herbert - Appleton-Century...
...Capricornia is what every frontier story should be - tough, sprawling, rampant with physical action. This roaring story of the opening of Australia's equatorial north, published already in half a dozen European countries, won its author the Commonwealth Government's Sesquicentenary Prize...
...Capricornia begins at the end of the 19th Century, when the Northwest's population was mostly crocodiles, devil crabs, creak-winged jabirus and colored aborigines. Pioneers from South Australia pushed up into a half million square miles drenched to swamp by the wet season, parched to desert by the dry. They were there to stay. When the defeated Larrapunas persisted in guerrilla tactics, the settlers gave them gifts of flour spiced with arsenic...
...accepted his "cigaret-stain" skin as a legacy from his mother (a Javanese princess, Oscar assured him). He returned to Oscar's farm a trained mechanic, looked like a "Rajah." The girls shouted when they saw him, "Oozit . . . Mygawdaineeflash ! " Abysmally unprepared for the Jim Crow strait jacket of Capricornia, he got an idea of his status from the white insults and the black friendliness...
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