num_pages: 416
description: Returning to England in 1840 the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland Coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of Aborigines. In the course of her escape she is torn by loyalties - to her dead husband to her rescuer to her own and to her adoptive class.
language: English
title: A Fringe of Leaves
publisher: Penguin Classics