Pemulwuy by Eric Willmot

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Pemulwuy

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Pemulwuy
Eric Willmot

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Overview

Pemulwuy the Rainbow Warrior is an historically based and detailed account of the initial formation of modern Australia. In 1788 the British landed on the East coast of the continent of Australia determined to set up a penal colony on land belonging to the Eora people. This all began at a place the Australians called Camay. The British re-named this inlet Botany bay. The eventual contact with the indigenous inhabitants was both traumatic and mysterious, but it was how modern Australia began.

Written as a novel this book provides the only narrative experience of the life style and world view of the original Australians before their society was destroyed by the conflict which resulted in a tragic social and cultural collapse of the Eora world. As the novel is developed, it also describes the official view of the British about what was happening in this world in the antipodes. Eventually it tells the stories of a number of Europeans who also resisted the British establishment in the colony by joining the Eroa people in their opposition. Some of these people became Australia's legendary 'Bushrangers' and together with surviving Aborigines they formed much of the basis of the culture of ordinary modern Australians.