Capricornia

Blurb

Capricornia is a novel by Xavier Herbert. Like his later work considered by many a masterpiece, the Miles Franklin Award winning Poor Fellow My Country, it provides a fictional account of life in 'Capricornia', a place clearly modelled specifically on Australia's Northern Territory, and to a lesser degree on tropical Australia in general, in the early twentieth century. It was written in London between 1930 and 1932. Capricornia was his first book, and is somewhat less challenging than the 1,463 pages which comprise Poor Fellow... -- referred to satirically by Barry Humphries as "Poor Fellow My Reader".
Highly influenced by the Jindyworobak Movement, it also describes the inter-racial relationships and abuses of the period.
It was written before Herbert was acting Protector of the Aborigines in Darwin.