From the author of The Burning Land comes a story of an untamed country and the people who dared to take it...South Australia, 1846, and the countryside is being rapidly carved into pastures and copper mines. It's first come, first served and no prizes for coming second. But to hold your prize you must be as tough and unforgiving as the land itself. A young man, Jason Hallam, shipwrecked off the Yorke Peninsula, is taken in by the Narungga clan who live there. He learns their ways, hears the whispers that the kuinyo, the white man, is coming to take their land. And then black and white tragically collide. Jason is caught between two worlds - his best friend, Mura, is Narungga, and Alison Matlock, the girl he loves, a grazier's daughter. What price is he prepared to pay to tread his own path, make his own rules? A compelling story of loyalty, loss and survival, A Far Country is alive with the beauty and brutality of a wild frontier and the people who made it their home.A Far Country is John Fletcher's third historical novel, and as we have come to expect from him, it is a saga of enormous scope. Based on impeccable research, John brings fresh and thought-provoking perspectives to the experiences of the early white settlers and the Aboriginal people they would displace by taking us inside the hearts and minds of his characters - leaving us in no doubt that nothing in our past is black and white. This is a bold story that delves as intrepidly into the realms of personal and cultural identity as it does into the forbidding landscape and ruthless industry of colonial life. Add to this John's wonderful ability to thread love and adventure into every tale he tells, and A Far Country is a must-read for lovers of historical fiction and unputdownable yarns alike.