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On a night of raging winds and rain, Captain Cook's Endeavour lies splintered on a coral reef off the coast of far north Australia. A small disparate band of survivors, fracturing already, huddle on the shore of this strange land - their pitiful salvage scant protection from the dangers of the unknown creatures and natives that live here. Watching these mysterious white beings, the Guugu Yimidhirr people cannot decide if they are ancestor spirits to be welcomed - or hostile spirits to be speared. One headstrong young boy, Garrgiil, determines to do more than watch and to be the one to find out what exactly they are. On a Barbarous Coast is the story of a past and future that might have been. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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On a Barbarous Coast is a collaborative work of speculative fiction. It tells an alternative history of Lieutenant James Cook's landing in far north Queensland in 1770.
Craig Cormick is an Australian science communicator and author of 30+ books of fiction and non-fiction. His co-writer is Harold Ludwick, a Bulgun Warra man from the Guugu Yimidhirr & Kuku Yalandji nations, and a Fellow of the National Museum of Australia. Together, they have woven a story that revisits the landing from two perspectives...
Magra is a midshipman on the Endeavour, and Garrgiil is a boy from the Guugu Yimidhirr people. The story departs from history when the Endeavour comes to grief on the Great Barrier Reef. The real-life Cook beached the badly damaged ship for repairs for seven weeks and then continued his voyage; in this novel the ship breaks up and Cook is washed up insensible along with other survivors. Magra is a disaffected man of failed ambitions, while Garrgiil is on the cusp of manhood. Both fear the Other, but both are curious as well.
In alternating narratives, the reader sees the catastrophe from the observations of the Indigenous people and from the British PoV. Puzzled by the behaviour of people they think are spirits returned from the dead, the Guugu Yimidhirr people keep their distance, but maintain a watch on events, while — deprived of authoritative leadership — the survivors are divided amongst themselves. The marines take off with the only weapons and build themselves a fort, while Magra and the rest of them are focussed on shelter from the elements and finding food and water. The botanists Joseph Banks and Mr Solander are invaluable for identifying edible plants as a food supply, but the marines, led by a ruffian called Judge, kidnap Solander to help them when they fail to catch and kill wildlife. Garrgiil, watching unobserved, notes however that none of the survivors are following laws and customs about where and when to gather food. As the survivors soon find out, their food sources are not sustainable, and malnutrition and sickness are the result.
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