Remembering Babylon

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.

subjects: Aboriginal Australians,  Australian aborigines,  Fiction,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Historical fiction,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  New York Times reviewed,  Australia, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Frontier and pioneer life, fiction

Places: Australia