Capricornia Author:Xavier Herbert This novel, winner of the Sesquicentennial Literary Prize, offers an insight into Aboriginal issues and race relations. A haunting book which brings to life a part of the world which the war in the Pacific has headlined, the northern territory of Australia -- still a frontier and a hard one. Herbert has done for this land and these peoples, whi... more »tes, blacks and halfcastes what Sarah Gertrude Millin did for one part of Africa. The story is a gripping one, difficult to handle -- the problem of the half breed, the "yellers" thrust into the social level of the blacks, despised by both.« less