And The Wild Birds Sing: A magnificent saga of Australia's early days
by Lola Irish
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- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Wamuran, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
In good condition - has yellow aging spots on front and back pages - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.
Sydney in 1841: a rough tumult of a town. An upper-class few clung to their illusions of privilege while the streets teemed with brawling chaotic life: the immigrant overflow of Britain's desperate slums, dispossessed Irish peasants, indentured servants and labourers, drunken seamen, political and religious refugees.
Into this sink-or-swim whirlpool of ambition, despair and hope, came Raunie, half Irish and half gipsy, just disembarked from the floating, fever-ridden squalor of the immigrant barque May Queen. Sixteen, pregnant and widowed, her wild flaunting beauty barely disguised by her filthy ragged clothes, she had nothing but the hard-won knowledge, wit and determination of a born survivor. But already she had sensed that in this harsh half-lawless society, there were possibilities as well as pitfalls, rewards as well as dangers.
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- Bookseller
- DASHbooks (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DASHbooks81
- Title
- And The Wild Birds Sing
- Author
- Lola Irish
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- New English Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1983
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- lola irish, and the wild birds sing, novel, family saga, australian classic, sydney, immigrant, britain, slums, irish, peasants, may, queen, beauty, survivor, danger, historical, saga, early, days,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novel; Historical; Family Saga; Australian Classic;
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