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Storm Boy

Author: Thiele, Colin
Year: 1963
Type: Novel
Edition: 2013 50th anniversary edition, New Holland Publishers.

Synopsis

Storm boy and his father live alone in a humpy among the sandhills between the Southern Ocean and the Coorong - a lonely, narrow waterway that runs parallel to a long stretch of the South Australian coast. Among the teeming birdlife of the Coorong, Storm Boy finds an injured young pelican whose life he saves. From then on, Storm Boy and Mr Percival the pelican become inseparable friends and spend their days exploring the wave-beaten shore and the drifting sandhills. Mr Percival learns to help Storm Boy's father with his fishing and warn the other birdlife whenever poachers are coming, but his part in rescuing a shipwrecked crew leads to great changes in Storm Boy's life. 

-- publisher's synopsis

Narrative Locations

Coorong, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia  

Temporal setting: 1960s

Quotes

Storm-Boy lived between the Coorong and the sea. His home was the long, long snout of hill and scrub that curves away south-eastwards from the Murray Mouth. A wild strip it is, windswept and tussocky, with the flat shallow water of the South Australian Coorong on one side and the endless slam of the Southern Ocean on the other. — Colin Thiele, Storm Boy

(p. 1)





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Storm Boy (Holloway, Tom, 2013)
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