The Waterboys
Published on 1. October 2011
364 pages
978-1-925161-04-5 (ISBN)
Description
In an apocalyptic future, Conway inhabits a continent caught up in a violent struggle for water control. He is on the run from the Water Board flunkies who hate him but need his water-divining skills to survive. A white man whose heart and spiritual connections are black, Conway dreams about the arrival of Europeans in Western Australia-when Captain Charles Fremantle chose to throw off the mantle of Empire and join the indigenous people. Part science fiction, part novel, this thriller discusses the effects of war, challenges ideological assumptions, and celebrates the brotherhood of men and the love for country.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
1,80 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-925161-04-5 (9781925161045)
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Peter Docker
The Waterboys
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08/2011
Fremantle Press
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- One: Night Delivery
- Two: Rainbows in the Tank
- Dreaming 44: The Cornfield
- Three: Holy Water
- Four: Can't Remember
- Dreaming 44: Back of the Ute
- Five: Metal Bees
- Dreaming 44: Rotten Inside
- Six: Back of the Divvy Van
- Dreaming 44: The Pub in the Middle of Nowhere
- Seven: The Tank
- Dreaming 44: Campfire Execution
- Eight: Swimming in the Tank
- Nine: Boxed In
- Waking Dream Memory: The Eyes of Spiders
- Ten: Watchin the Footy with Me Mates
- Eleven: Keepings Off
- Ghost of History: Welcome to Country
- Twelve: Dispersing the Natives
- Dreaming 44: The Disappearing Track
- Thirteen: Talking With Rednecks
- Ghost of History: Planting Tears
- Fourteen: Swim the Sick Mother
- Ghost of History: The Empire Has Not Forgotten Us
- Fifteen: What You Bring
- Sixteen: Nayia-Nayia
- Shared Waking Dream Memory: Secret Water
- Seventeen: Reward or Punishment
- Eighteen: The Smoky Man
- Waking Dream Memory: Wrong Place
- Nineteen: Right Questions
- Twenty: Riding the Skin
- Ghost of History: Waters off Wadjemup
- Twenty-one: Smash and Grab
- Ghost of History: Finest Navy the World Has Ever Seen
- Twenty-two: Going Over
- Ghost of History: Cavorting with Savages
- Twenty-three: Red Balloons in the Guts
- Shared Searching Dream: Grog Bunker
- Twenty-four: Scars, Weapons and Free Water
- Twenty-five: Blood and Dust in the Water
- Blood Dust Dream: River of Blood
- Twenty-six: Here and There
- Twenty-seven: Secret Healing Water Song
- Ghost of History: Arriving Again
- Twenty-eight: Whale Song Blessing
- Ghost of History: The Soul of Our People is Burning
- Twenty-nine: Same Water Me
- Thirty: Water on Scars
- Dreaming 44: Love on the Web
- Thirty-one: Memory of Spiders
- Thirty-two: Neanderthal
- Ghost of History: Djenga Gods
- Thirty-three: Taken In
- Shared Dream Memory: The Sarge (May His Soul Find Peace)
- Thirty-four: Keeping Enemies Close
- Thirty-five: Brothers Going South
- Ghost of History: Me and Wobbegong Down by the Darbal Yaragan
- Thirty-six: Landing Down South
- Thirty-seven: Trick of History
- Dreaming 44: Value of Concrete
- Thirty-eight: Just in Time
- Dreaming 44: Finish Up
- Thirty-nine: The Waterboys
- Ghost of History: Smoke and Water Dreams
- Ghost of History: State of Grace
- Ghost of History: Wobbegong and Holy Water
- Ghost of History: Mutiny
- Ghost of History: Running on the Wind
- Ghost of History: Wobbegong Hunting
- Forty: Two Brothers
- Flying Dream: Spirit Dreams of Love
- Forty-one: Make More Spear
- Nyoongar Boodjar Regional Map
- Aboriginal Words and Their Meaning
- Fictional Characters' Names and Their Meaning
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright Page
