[2][3] Successful author Beatrice Lynn is commissioned by her publisher to go to the Outback and locate the "legendary" white man, Mara, who heads an Aboriginal Australian tribe.
Previously not allowed into Mara's tribal land to sell his wares, Akbar Jhan has schemed to use Beatrice, a white woman, to arouse Mara's interest.
Meanwhile, the Australian Mounted Police has its hands full with a missing inspector, an international drug ring, and a tribe of Aboriginal warriors led by Moopil who have killed two prospectors, as well as searching for the missing Beatrice.
After its initial publication in Australia by New South Wales Bookstall Company in 1936,[1] it was serialised in The Land between August 1937 and February 1938.
[3] The book is a novelisation of the film of the same title which was released in 1936, written and directed by Charles Chauvel.