Lands beyond the sea

Select an Action

Title:

Lands beyond the sea

Author:

McKinley, Tamara.

ISBN:

9780340924655

9780340924662

9780340924679

Personal Author:

McKinley, Tamara.

Publication Information:

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2007.

Physical Description:

397 pages ; 24 cm

Abstract:

The year is 1768. For thousands of years, Australia has been inhabited only by the Aborigines who understand its land so well. But giant boats filled with white ghost-men are arriving, and their shores are now under a terrifying invasion. Longing to see the world, Jonathan joins the Endeavour's voyage.

Subject Term:

English -- Australia -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.

Penal colonies -- Australia -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.

Copies:

Available:*

Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... 1:VCSD	1:GEN-BOOK	000108529	MCK	1	Searching... Unknown

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

Discovery

By the 1700s, the Aborigine has lived in harmony with the land in Australia for sixty thousand years. But now ghost-ships are arriving, their very existence is threatened by a terrifying white invasion.

Love

When Jonathan Cadwallader leaves Cornwall to sail on the Endeavour, he leaves behind sweetheart, Susan Penhalligan. But an act of brutality will reunite them in the raw and unforgiving penal colony of New South Wales.

Hardship

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...