Lizard Island

Résumé du livre

Illustrated account of Mary Watson's escape with her baby and a wounded Chinese workman after an attack by mainland Aborigines on her absent husband's Lizard Island station; travelling by sea for eight days in a cut-down ship's water tank before dying of thirst on an Island off Cape Flattery in Far North Queensland; early encounters between European explorers and Aborigines of Far North Queensland; recollection and stories of Aboriginal decendants of Lizard Island Aborigines; massacre of Aborigines at Cape Flattery.