The Explorers

Sydney and Auckland: Doubleday. Very Good. 22 cm. Hardback. 1982. 490 pages. <br>They were born of rogues and adventurers, brigands and thieves-brave men and women determined to wrest a life from a land still echoing with the violent cry of revolution, the dark song of untamed desire. Into this vast, roiling landscape came b eautiful Jessica Maclaine, whose invincible spirit plunged her in to the dark, sensual heart of New South Wales where scandal and i ntrigue were the stronghold of glory, where the condemned found f reedom in the deadly peril of an unruly frontier ... For, at the birth of a new century, they were all part of one glorious dream- the legacy of lovely Jenny Taggart, who saw in a renegade nation the bold promise of tomorrow, the splendid, treacherous destiny o f the explorers. .