TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cobby Eckermann,Ali
TI  - Ruby Moonlight: a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid-north South Australia around 1880 
SN  - 9781921248641
AV  - PR9619.4.C63 R83 2012eb
U1  - 821.92 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Sydney
PB  - Magabala Books
KW  - Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Australiens (Aborigènes), Attitudes envers les
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Poésie
KW  - POETRY
KW  - Australian & Oceanian
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Australia
KW  - South Australia
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Australie
KW  - Colonisation
KW  - Australie-Méridionale
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Novels in verse
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Romans en vers
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Nature; Harmony; Morning; Warning; Ambush; Silence; Shadow; Birds; Ochre; Wander; Dream; Shelter; Wash; Sedge; Gifts; Intrude; Smoke; Bunyip; Shack; Jack; Dark; Hunger; Beast; Food; Friends; Merger; Oasis; Unseen; Solace; Beauty; Tempo; Visitor; Signs; Whispers; Moon; Vision; Murmur; Clouds; Shame; Ritual; Promise; Depart; Spring; Caution; Kuman; Falling; Mud; Green; Fortune; Detour; Loose; Memory; Blur; Shy; Broken; Torn; Hate; Scheme; Muddle; Cave; Instinct; Message; Cursed; Jury; Misread; Spear; Feathers; Empty; Sunset; about the author; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
N2  - Tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman in the late nineteenth century who survives the massacre of her entire family. Wandering alone through Ngadjuri land, in South Australia, she encounters a luckless Irish trapper whose loneliness matches her own. Drawn together for comfort, they discover a momentary paradise along riverbanks and across arid plains that proves fragile in the face of frontier violence and colonization; Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby's courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons
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