Venom
eBook - ePub

Venom

The heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake

  1. 398 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Venom

The heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake

About this book

In the early years of the twentieth century, an awareness was growing among European Australians of an unexpected threat, one that seemed the very embodiment of the dark, ominous power of the Australian bush. To the Indigenous people of the Guugu Yimithirr nation, it was nguman; to the whites it was the taipan, an eight foot, lightning fast venomous snake whose bite meant certain death. Venom is an examination of European settlers' troubled and often antagonistic relationship with the land, seen through the lens of the desperate scramble for an antivenom, and highlighted by the story of George Rosendale, a taipan bite victim of the Guugu Yimithirr nation.

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Table of contents

  1. Venom
  2. Author’s Note
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. Prologue
  6. Chapter 1: The house in the canefield
  7. Chapter 2: The Angel of Death
  8. Chapter 3: Muni
  9. Chapter 4: White man’s mythology
  10. Chapter 5: No God north of Rockhampton
  11. Chapter 6: Exiled
  12. Chapter 7: Woorabinda
  13. Chapter 8: The Reptile Club
  14. Chapter 9: Mentors
  15. Chapter 10: The fascination of the serpent
  16. Chapter 11: Birds in flight
  17. Chapter 12: Coen
  18. Chapter 13: Specimens
  19. Chapter 14: Serpent in Eden
  20. Chapter 15: Divine intervention
  21. Chapter 16: The cancer of the north
  22. Chapter 17: Dulce et decorum est
  23. Chapter 18: Pro scientia mori
  24. Chapter 19: His ghost may be heard
  25. Chapter 20: The lost boy
  26. Chapter 21: Death ceremony
  27. Chapter 22: Blame
  28. Chapter 23: Box full of death
  29. Chapter 24: Cruelty and waste
  30. Chapter 25: Uncrowned king of the underworld
  31. Chapter 26: Treatment
  32. Chapter 27: Taipan-proof fence
  33. Chapter 28: The slack and the crushing
  34. Chapter 29: Taipan
  35. Chapter 30: The travelling show
  36. Chapter 31: The innocent and the venomous
  37. Chapter 32: Growing urgency
  38. Chapter 33: Breakthrough
  39. Chapter 34: Bruce Stringer
  40. Chapter 35: George Rosendale
  41. Chapter 36: Ceremony of freedom
  42. Epilogue
  43. Acknowledgements
  44. Notes
  45. References
  46. About the author
  47. Imprint
  48. Echo