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Abigail's first marriage arranged by her dictatorial father had proved to be a total disaster. Barely has she had a chance to take stock of her situation when her father announces she is to marry again; to a suitor totally unacceptable to Abigail. Disillusioned with her father and men in general, Abigail plans her escape. Prevailed upon for his assistance, her twin brother, Doctor George Goldfinch, agrees to enter into the subterfuge. He assists Abigail, along with her companion and her maid, to escape London and the clutches of their father. With his manservant, the enigmatic Thomas, the group leave the London docks bound for the Antipodes. After six years developing a medical practice in Brisbane, the Goldfinch entourage journey, on board the Northern Orchid, to Cook's Town where they provide assistance to a desperate new settlement. Cook's Town in 1873, the gateway to the newly discovered goldfield on the Palmer River, two hundred miles inland, supports little infrastructure necessary to cope with the thousands of prospectors seeking their fortunes. No harbour is available on the Endeavour River. The town is little more than a tent city. Food and clean drinking water are in short supply. Access to a trained medical professional is a rarity. The monsoons threaten. Hundreds of miners are dying in their attempt to reach the goldfields or on their return to Cook's Town, disillusioned, starving and penniless. After the death of her mother and the placement of her siblings in the Brisbane orphanage, sixteen-year-old Maureen Ryan must find her mining father. She arrives in Cook's Town on board the Northern Orchid in the company of the doctor's group. Foolishly, Maureen believes a shifty packhorse handler, Silas. The man claims to know her father, Bert Ryan, and where he is to be found on the goldfields. He offers to deliver Maureen to her father. In return, Silas asks for her assistance with his packhorse team during the journey. It is Josh and Gus Dougall along with China from the Northern Orchid and Bert Ryan himself, who begin the race to rescue the girl.
The book that launched Di Morrissey as Australia's most popular female novelist. At twenty-one, Queenie Hanlon has the world at her feet and the love of handsome bushman TR Hamilton. Beautiful, wealthy and intelligent she is the only daughter of Tingulla Station, the famed outback property in the wilds of western Queensland. At twenty-two, her life lies in ruins. A series of disasters has robbed her of everything she ever loved. Everything except Tingulla - her ancestral home and her spirit's Dreaming place. . . And now she is about to lose that too. . .
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, "The Shadow Out of Time" is the tale of a professor of political economics that is thrown into a mind-shattering journey through time and space, while his body is held hostage by an alien mind. Horrified and panic-stricken by the implications of his experiences, he hopes against all reason and evidence that he has merely lost his mind.
Foot-tracks in New Zealand examines the development of walking tracks over two centuries, from the early 19th century to about 2011. The paperback version comes in two volumes but is otherwise identical to the electronic version. Page size: A4 Format: Paperback, 2 vol. ISBN: 0473191911, 9780473191917 Number of pages: 1000 About: Trails, Tracks, New Zealand, History, Recreation, Land access. Availability: By print on demand from The Fine Print Company, Waipukurau, Central Hawke’s Bay, 4200, NZ.
In this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as "Gouger" for the Bulletin. In Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula jungle was falling under the settler's axe, his own day-to-day experiences, and the district's historical background. The book is peopled by characters given to polite chiacking and the writing of poetry, and the reading of 'pomes' by the evening campfire... Perhaps the most interesting is the 'Jungle Man' who could scent animals and Aborigines in the scrub before they scented him. He also possessed incredible hearing... who took Jack into the rugged mountains and the dense jungle and showed him a primitive world few men have ever seen. Jack was treading in the paths of his heroes - the explorers. Beverley Eley, from her biography Ion Idriess.
Series of short poems, each with an Aboriginal title, many relating to experiences of her pastoralist forebears at Keera Station in northwestern NSW; includes many quotations from diaries re Aborigines in accompanying notes.
Throughout Teller County, history lovers can find abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. Even before Teller was carved from surrounding counties, the scenic mountains and lucrative mines of the gold rush era brought thousands of settlers and attracted resort owners and tycoons eager to exploit the rich setting. Seemingly overnight, towns in the Cripple Creek District and other places popped up, flush with gold and people looking for opportunity. As the ore disappeared, the miners moved on in search of the next big lode. One by one, the towns were all but forgotten. Join Jan MacKell Collins and discover the booming history, lost towns and hardy settlers of Teller County.