The Big Country by E. V. Timms (PB)

The Big Country

by E. V. Timms

Angus and Robertson, 1972, paperback

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, general creasing and scuffing to covers and spine, previous owners’ inscription and stamp on half title page, age toned pages (see photographs)

“This is a story of the Big Country that lies around and beyond the Darling River in the far west of New South Wales.  There, in the year 1874, a beautiful half-caste girl, Jenny Courage, is searching for her father, the white man who abandoned her mother and on whom she means to be revenged.  Jenny works first as a stewardess on a river steamer, where she meets the Inseparables, three drovers who know the country as few other men do.  They are destined to see more of each other, for at Bourke they fall in with the indomitable Martha Gubby, who has decided to become a station-owner in her old age, and who takes the drovers into partnership and engages Jenny as housekeeper.”

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