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The last bushrangers in Australian history, James and Patrick Kenniff, were at the height at their horse thieving operation at the turn of the 20th century. In One, troops cannot pull the Kenniff Gang out of the ranges and plains of Western Queensland - the brothers know the terrain too well, and the locals are sympathetic to their escapades. When a policeman and a station manager go out on patrol from tiny Upper Warrego Station and disappear, Sergeant Nixon makes it his mission to pursue show more the gang, especially, Jim Kenniff, who becomes for him an emblem of the violence that resides in the heart of the country. show less

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Patrick Holland was born on August 7, 1977 in Rockhampton, Australia. He is the author of a short story collection entitled The Source of the Sound, which won Salt Publishing's 2010 Scott Prize. His other works include The Mary Smokes Boys, Riding the Trains in Japan, The Darkest Little Room, Navigatio, and One. He is also a founding member of the show more Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Association. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
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823.92Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-2000-
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R9619.4 .H65 .H655Medicine
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