Pilbara

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In this ancient, harsh place, faint hearts will not last. The Pilbara, late 1800s. Frontier country, the wild west of Australia a lawless, violent place where treachery is a way of life. Widower Charles Burton arrives in this forbidding corner of the world with his three young children. They've travelled half the globe, from the lush, rolling hills and dales of Yorkshire, on a mission to save their family's sheep and cattle property. Rebuilding the fortunes of Burton Station will ask everything of Charles and his children, particularly his daughter, Victoria, who will at times threaten to bring about their downfall. Here in the oldest landscape on earth, survival has always proved a battle. And when greed takes over, the battle only intensifies. Aboriginal people are robbed of their lands and their very way of every new arrival fights for the riches on offer - the grazing territory, the pearls and the gold. Amid all this brutality, the Burtons and the allies must fight to conquer the savagery that surrounds them. From Yorkshire to Cossack in Western Australia, and from London to Tahiti in French Polynesia, Pilbara is the tale of a family on a mission to restore the honour of its name.