Lands beyond the sea
By: Tamara McKinley
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Oceana series -- 1
Publisher: ISIS; ISIS Large Print Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780753180389; 9780753180396
Subjects: English; Fiction; History; Penal colonies
Description: By the 1700s, the Aborigine had lived in harmony with the land in Australia for 60,000 years. But now ghost-ships are arriving, and their very existence is threatened by a terrifying white invasion. When Jonathan Cadwallader leaves Cornwall to sail on the Endeavour, he is forced to abandon his sweetheart, Susan Penhalligan. But an act of brutality will reunite them in the raw and unforgiving penal colony of New South Wales. Billy Penhalligan has survived transportation and clings to the promise of a new beginning. But there will be more suffering before he or his fellow convicts can regard Australia as home.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007.