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Title: Roving Party

Author: Rohan Wilson

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2014-02-25

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, single-minded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white manthis is the roving party, and their purpose is massacre. With promises of freedom, land grants, and money, each is willing to risk his life for the prize. Passing over many miles of tortured country, the roving party searches for Aborigines, taking few prisoners and killing freely, Batman never abandoning the visceral intensity of his hunt. And all the while, Black Bill pursues his personal quarry, the much-feared warrior Manalargena.

A surprisingly beautiful evocation of horror and brutality, The Roving Party is a meditation on the intricacies of human nature at its most raw.

The Roving Party is distinguished by Wilsons tactful and restrained account of a brutal episode in the history of the conflict between European newcomers and the original inhabitants of Van Diemens Land. His restraint renders the horrors he depicts far more vivid and their ethical implications much more telling than other melodramatic, at times tub-thumping, approachesEvocative and impressive.Sydney Morning Herald