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