Poynton Park

by Robert Peterson

Overview

The Australian natives and early settlement immigrants from England, Ireland, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Afghanistan surround Burke’s Billabong on the Flinders River in the Gulf of Carpentaria of Queensland, Australia. Their different cultures, religions, love and greed play out in the maturing second generation far from civilisation. Disease, dingoes, snakes and crocodiles are prevalent. Natives fight for their land and lives. The story, based on early settlement issues, follows RON POYNTON as he weaves through romance, family and neighbour deception.
The families begin running domestic animals and supplement a living from the tidal rivers where prized barramundi fish transport to city markets by small planes. Living outback is no easy street as the intruders steal grazing land away from the native animal population of kangaroos, wallabies and goannas. Native populations starve or shot for stealing domestic stock. They have no money to buy food, nor guns to fight back. Gold mining is not their way to prosper. Even the town folk begin to suffer as drugs become an issue.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045191067
Publisher:	Robert Peterson
Publication date:	08/01/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

The Author grew up in North Queensland in the wettest town in Australia, as oldest of three boys after his elder sister suspiciously drowned in the Babinda Creek. He achieved an Associate Degree in Agriculture at Gatton Campus of Queensland University. Began serious writing on retirement after joining a local writing club and Writing.com. Accomplished writing awards at school and local shows, wrote agricultural extension and research articles, monthly farm memos and local newspapers over 20 years and collection of sensitive security metadata on a diamond mine. Humour arose as positive energy-challenging dimples of 30plus surgical operations over his life. The Author’s written work is Australian fiction reworked from numerous assumed bush homicides garnered while imbibing over a bar, around a campfire or out fishing on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Author’s non-fiction life’s work competes as a Guinness Records tag for life’s stuff-ups, such as riding on a large crocodile, bitten by snakes, a giant eel, a stonefish, tiger sharks, gored and kicked by horses and cattle.
The Author presently lives in Seville Grove, Western Australia with his wife Glenys.