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Australia: Max C. S. Beck. Near Fine. 2015. New Edition. Paperback. 0994418205 . Signed by the author, Illustrated, a very good copy. Bsed on a true story this historical fiction is an epic tale of a resilient pioneering woman. On the threshold of starvation when the potato blight hits Cornwall, Jane Dunstan decides to rescue her family from desperate poverty and her husband, Richard, from the dreadful conditions in the mines. She successfully applies for a 'free passage' to migrate to South Australia with their seven children aged from one to twelve. After suffering appaling living conditions in the cramped steerage of the ship and the challenges of the sea during the three month journey, the family, on arrival in South Australia in 1849, travel 100 miles north of Adelaide by bullock wagon to the Burra copper mines. At Burra they live in the underground dugout in the banks of the Burra Creek and Richard, with his three boys, work in the mine. ; 235 x 160mm; xvi, 375 pages; Signed…
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- Title A Different Earth
- Author Max C. Beck
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 394
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Port Campbell Press
- Date 2015
- ISBN 9780994418203 / 0994418205
- Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.06 cm)
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A DIFFERENT EARTH Cornish Pioneer Miners to Australia - the Story of Jane Dunstan and Her Family, Who Travelled from Cornwall to Burra and Overland to Gold
by Beck, Max C. S.
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