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    The Pioneers
    The Pioneers
    The Pioneers
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Pioneers

    Written by Katharine S Prichard

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Donald Cameron are free-settlers who make a home in the wilderness and grow a prosperous cattle operation that establishes their position as prominent members of the new settlement.At first, the novel privileges Mary’s perspective as she encounters escaped convicts, bush fires, and raising a son in a remote community. Later, it follows her son, Davey, as he struggles for independence against his father’s harsh authority. Davey encounters further obstacles in the figure of local hotel owner, Thad McNab, who is determined that Davey’s childhood sweetheart, Deirdre, should be his own bride. (Summary by kirstyl)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    The Pioneers
    Author

    Katharine S Prichard

    Katharine Susannah Prichard was born in 1883 in Fiji and spent part of her childhood in Melbourne and part in Tasmania before moving to Greenmount, Western Australia, where she died in 1969. Her novels include The Pioneers (winner of the Australian section of Hodder & Stoughton's All-Empire novel competition), Working Bullocks, Coonardoo and The Black Opal, but she also wrote poetry, short stories and a play. She went on the road with the iconic Wirth's Circus to research Haxby's Circus. The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre was established in 1985 at her former home in the Perth Hills.

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