A Saddle at Bontharambo - H.J. Samuel
Product Information A Saddle at Bontharambo - H.J. Samuel A Story of Australian Pioneers This is the true story of a pioneer family who set out from Sydney in covered wagons and on horseback to make a new home for themselves in the Australian bush. It is written from the original diaries of the Docker family and tells how young Mary Docker, her brothers and sisters and their parents, travelled westward along Major Mitchell's newly discovered trail and experience excitement and danger in the unexplored bush. Crossing flooded rivers, meeting the Aborigines for the first time, fighting bushfires, an encounter with Morgan the bushranger - these are just some of the adventures that befall this family of settlers as they struggle to establish their home at 'Bontharambo', in the plains of north-eastern Victoria. This softcover volume was published by Puffin Books in 1976. It is ex-library, covered in clear contact with appropriate stickers and stamps, it has a slight tear at the base of the spine.
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