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Peter Corris
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Naismith's Dominion |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Paperback |
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| Date: |
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1990 |
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186359017X |
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Bantam Books |
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2 Marianne (Australia), Kerry (USA: CA) |
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2 Kerry (USA: CA), rweyburn (USA: DC) |
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| Description: |
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Product Description
Naismith's Dominion
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Marianne (Australia) (2012/07/11):
Naismith’s Dominion is the 3rd stand-alone historical fiction novel by Australian author Peter Corris and is set in the fictional British Jeremiah Islands Protectorate, a group of islands located north-east of Australia, in early 1928. Corris sets a scene where some islanders are Christian converts who dress modestly and provide cheap labour, whilst others follow pagan “kastom”, wear very little, refuse to work for the British and pledge allegiance to the ‘lemo”, a shaman/war leader with a reputation for killing. Completing the picture are Chinese merchants, Japanese workers, traders and the British Colonial Service personnel. The dominion of the title is the island of Murdo, where Australian, William Naismith, has been District Officer for some 12 years. Naismith is a teetotal, non-smoking, opera-loving DO who likes to exert tight control over his dominion. Trouble is brewing with a particularly vicious lemo, Eglito, having escaped from jail and drumming up support among the bushmen. Add to this mix, a Resident Commissioner who is out of touch and eager to retire to England, a passionately puritanical missionary, and, newly-arrived, an idealistic BCS cadet, a young anthropologist hoping to live amongst the Murdoans, an American adventure novelist with dropping book sales who is hoping to set a bestseller novel in BJIP, and his young, sexy and wealthy wife of ten weeks. Events in London at The BCS, in New York at the author’s publishing house, and on the Jeremiah Islands lead to an explosive climax. Corris expertly conveys the British Colonial feel and the Pacific Island atmosphere. His characters have plenty of depth and the dialogue is credible. There is a bit of sex and a lot of violence in this very well-told yarn.
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