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The Switherby pilgrims : a tale of the Australian bush /

Spence, Eleanor.

The Switherby pilgrims : a tale of the Australian bush / Eleanor Spence. - Bathgate, ND : San Francisco : Bethlehem Books ; Ignatius Press, c2005. - 195 p. ; 22 cm.

Sequel : Jamberoo Road.

In 1825, concerned for the future of her ten orphan charges in the grim factory towns of their native England, Miss Arabella Braithewaite, known to the children as Missabella, decides to take a land grant in Australia and makes the long, daunting journey with her wards to the austere bush country of New South Wales.

188393799X (pbk. : acidfree paper)

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Orphans--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.


Australia--History--1788-1851--Fiction.

PZ7.S7475 / Sw 2005