Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported...
New South Wales
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Auteur:Moriarty, JaclynSommaire: -
Auteur:HILL, AnthonySommaire:An entertaining mixture of fact and fiction about experiences in a small N.S.W. town, prompted by the decision of a family to escape the tensions of life in Canberra.
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Auteur:HUNT, HaroldSommaire:This journey, through one of the harshest terrains in outback Australia, tells of May Hunt, a Malyangapa woman from the Milparinka tribe, who made a life for herself and her children where the dust storms swirled of the Simpson Desert,...
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Auteur:Bail, MurraySommaire:In order to marry Ellen Holland, a suitor must identify every species of the five hundred trees on her family's property in Australia, a test set by her possessive father. To Ellen's alarm--she is attracted to a young man--an aging...
- Auteur:McClymont, KateSommaire:
We all know Sydney is full of corruption and crime, but none of us expected to read about a Sydney businessman being shot in the back of his head, in his driveway, in front of his nine-year-old son, in Cremorne. Nor that the order would...
- Auteur:Clacy, EllenSommaire:
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 is an account of Clacy's visit with her brother to the Victorian goldfields. It combines detailed description with features of real dramatic interest and gives a lively...
- Auteur:Tench, WatkinSommaire:
Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Botany Bay with the First Fleet in January 1788. He was in his late twenties, a captain of the marines, and on the advanture of his life. Insatiably curious, with a natural genius for storytelling, Tench...
