Remembering Babylon
By: David Malouf
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction; Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
Description: In the mid-1840s, thirteen-year-old Gemmy Fairley is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by Aboriginals. Sixteen years later, when settlers reach the area, he moves back ino the world of Europeans. Given shelter by the McIvors, Gemmy seems at first to be guaranteed a secure role in the settlement, but there are currents of fear and mistrust in the air. -- back cover.