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  • Published: 1 January 1999
  • ISBN: 9781863251662
  • Imprint: Bantam Australia
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.99

Keep Him My Country




Keep Him My Country is a powerful novel of a young man's experience of the harsh beauty of the outback, growing up and the difficult learning experience that accompanies it.

Keep Him My Country is a powerful novel of a young man's experience of the harsh beauty of the outback, growing up and the difficult learning experience that accompanies it.

When 19-year-old Stan Rolt strikes out for the Northern Territory, determined to manage an ailing family cattle station, he plays into the hands of his manipulative grandfather. Intending to spend two years at Trafalgar Station, he stays fifteen, his soul captured by the harsh but haunting country of Kimberley. Try as he might, he can't seem to escape its clutches, even though it killed his father and threatens also to bring him down. He is held there by the dependence of the people, black and white, and the memory of a tragic love affair that still haunts him...

  • Published: 1 January 1999
  • ISBN: 9781863251662
  • Imprint: Bantam Australia
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Mary Durack

Dame Mary Durack DBE OBE was born to the heritage of a pioneering family. Long recognised as one of Australia's great literary figures, she wrote 15 books, short stories, poems, plays and film scripts. She died in 1994.

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