Dark Tales from the Long River: A Bloody History of Australia's North-West Frontier

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David Price

Dark Tales from the Long River

A Bloody History of Australia's North-West Frontier

David Price

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Fremantle Arts Centre Prs
01 June 2021

History; Social discrimination; Migration, immigration & emigration; Rural communities; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies

Delve into the dark history of Western Australia in this collection of true crime stories.

From searches for serial killers and missing persons to the persecution of migrants and Aboriginal people, David Price takes us back to a time when the line between lawmakers and criminals was lightly drawn. Based on a wide array of contemporaneous accounts of life in the Gascoyne, these sometimes shocking, sometimes disturbing true crime stories depict an era when Australia's laws served to maintain order rather than to secure justice.

Dark Tales from the Long River offers a window into an evolving history of Western Australia that is still struggling into the light.

By: David Price
Imprint: Fremantle Arts Centre Prs
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 256g
ISBN: 9781925816631
ISBN 10: 192581663X
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Price is a Western Australian educator who grew up in the small town of Carnarvon in the 1960s. He has been a teacher, principal and Director of Schools in many parts of the state. Although he now lives in Perth, David has long been intrigued by the hidden history of his home town and its wilful amnesia about the treatment of Aboriginal people and Asian migrants by the first settlers.