epub |eng | 2022-10-18 | Author:Vivian Stuart

All Sydney turned out to witness the arrival of His Majesty’s ship Tamar, of twenty-six guns, and she made a brave sight as she sailed down the harbor, her signal ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Catherine McCullagh

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Informing Grace Grace Picon and Jon Friedrich had far more in common than either would have cared to admit. Yet this much was obvious to the one person ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sharyn Bradford Lunn [Lunn, Sharyn Bradford]

Chapter 19 Jim McCabe did not see Bonnie again until September 1870, when he was almost seventeen and she had just turned sixteen. He was back in Ballaarat to spend ...

epub |eng | 2022-12-14 | Author:Simon Smith

Preparing for the Battle On a vessel travelling north, 24 March 1868, early morning ‘I think I see it. Yes, I see it! It must be Eden!’ ‘Yes! How beautiful ...

epub |eng | 2021-07-11 | Author:Wendy M. Wilson [Wendy M. Wilson]

She was in the bookstore the next day when Frederic Karlsen arrived, followed shortly by Karira. Karlsen looked Karira up and down, frowning and said, “I thought you would bring ...

epub |eng | 2021-07-08 | Author:Wendy M. Wilson [Wendy M. Wilson]

She left Mary Kane, her emotions in a turmoil. She had to admit to herself that she was missing Frank physically. And they never had any problems finding things to ...

epub |eng | 2023-01-11 | Author:Andrew Wareham [Wareham, Andrew]

Singapore was carefree – life was good and the Depression was over and there was no such thing as a Japanese menace, and if there was, they had the RAF ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Chuck Darwin [Darwin, Chuck]

6 While Lucius Caesar licked his wounds in Teanum Sidicinum, Gaius Papius Mutilus In crossed the Volturnus River and then the Calor River. When he reached Nola he was greeted ...

epub |eng | | Author:P.D.R. Lindsay

Chapter Thirteen That first day everyone tried to find their sea legs and a comfortable space on deck. Melisande wrapped herself in her papa’s made-over tweed overcoat, still smelling faintly ...

epub |eng | 2022-09-06 | Author:Vivian Stuart

9 The prevailing drought, although its effect in the vicinity of the Bathurst Plains was much less severe than on the Sydney side of the dividing range of the Blue ...

epub |eng | 2022-09-06 | Author:Vivian Stuart

7 George De Lancey stood on the deck of the transport Conway, moodily watching as the first boatload of convicts came alongside. All were from Cork Jail, all were heavily ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sharyn Bradford Lunn [Lunn, Sharyn Bradford]

Chapter 23 Early the next morning, Nicholas wrote out his petition to Lieutenant-Governor Collins requesting permission to marry Margaret McKinnon, native of Ardnamurchan and convict sentenced to life. The papers ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sharyn Bradford Lunn [Lunn, Sharyn Bradford]

Chapter Thirty It was all the talk of gold that captured Ann McCabe’s imagination the following May. An Englishman by the name of Edward Hargraves had discovered gold in New ...

epub |eng | 2022-06-07 | Author:Else Fitzgerald

IT’S MIDNIGHT, BITCH Man’s voice, breathless: Are you recording this? Aliss? Is it on? Okay. So. I’m just telling it how it … Look, I had foresight, that’s what it ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:George Eliot [Eliot, George]