Thicker Than Water [electronic resource]
Cal Flyn2016
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A compelling and beautifully written memoir about dark and shameful family
secrets, and one young woman's pilgrimage to Australia to attempt to lay the
past to rest. British journalist Cal Flyn was holidaying in her childhood home
in the Highlands of Scotland, when she stumbled upon a dark family secret. To
her horror, she discovered that her great-great-great uncle Angus McMillan, who
had been mythologized as a great explorer and pioneer of early Australia, was in
fact also the leader of a number of gruesome massacres of indigenous people. In
1843, he led a loosely formed 'Highland brigade', linked to a series of assaults
so ferocious that the sites would ever after be synonymous with bloodshed:
Butchers Creek, Boney Point, Skull Creek, Slaughterhouse Gully. Driven to piece
together his story and to confront her own history, Cal decided to retrace
McMillan's journey to Australia, looking for answers: how could a man lauded for
his generosity and integrity commit such terri...
Main title:
Thicker Than Water [electronic resource] / Cal Flyn
Author:
Cal Flyn, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : 4th Estate, 2016
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (384 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781460705056
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
435699
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