Taronga
| Title | Taronga |
| Year for Search | 1986 |
| Authors | Kelleher, Victor [Michael Kitchener](b. 1939) |
| Date Published | 1986 |
| Publisher | Viking Kestral |
| Place Published | Ringwood, VIC, Australia |
| Keywords | Australian author, English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia set in Australia. The catastrophe, which is not described, has left people fighting to survive and turning to cannibalism. Taronga, which is the Sydney zoo, looks like a food source to some but others protect the animals. At the end, after an epic battle, the animals are freed and move out into the countryside as do the central characters, a girl and a boy. |
| Additional Publishers | U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988. |
| Holding Institutions | L, NZ, VUW |
| Author Note | The author (b. 1939) was born in England and lived in Africa for ten years before moving to Australia in 1976. |
| Full Text | 1986 Kelleher, Victor [Michael Kitchener] (b. 1939). Taronga. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Viking Kestral, 1986. U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988. L, NZ, VUW Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia set in Australia. The catastrophe, which is not described, has left people fighting to survive and turning to cannibalism. Taronga, which is the Sydney zoo, looks like a food source to some but others protect the animals. At the end, after an epic battle, the animals are freed and move out into the countryside as do the central characters, a girl and a boy. The author was born in England and lived in Africa for ten years before moving to Australia in 1976. |
