In 1837 Angus McMillan
left the Scottish Highlands for the other side of the world. Cutting
paths through the alien harshness of the Australian frontier, McMillan
became a pioneer to be forever mythologised in the statues and landmarks
that bore his name. He was also Cal Flyn’s great-great-great-uncle.
Inspired by this glimmer of an ancestral greatness, Flyn followed in his
footsteps to Australia, where her investigations forced her to confront
dark and horrifying family secrets.
She discovered that McMillan and his peers were responsible for a series of assaults on
indigenous peoples so ferocious that the sites would ever after be
synonymous with bloodshed: Skull Creek, Boney Point, Slaughterhouse
Gully. McMillan too had a new name: the Butcher of Gippsland.
Driven
to piece together his story and confront her own history, Flyn looks
for answers: How could a man lauded for his generosity and integrity
commit such terrible acts? How could a man who had witnessed the horror
of Highlanders cleared from their lands then massacre and ‘clear’
indigenous people on the other side of the world? How can whole
societies come to be overlooked and forgotten? Should today's generation
atone for their ancestors' sins?
Blending memoir, history and
travel, Thicker Than Water evokes the startlingly beautiful wilderness
of the Highlands, the desolate bush of Victoria and the reverberations
on one from the other. A tale of blood and bloodlines, it is a powerful,
personal journey into dark family history, intergenerational grief and
the inherited guilt that we all carry with us.
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N - 47 | Thicker Than Water by Cal Flyn
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