Title A fringe of leaves / Patrick White

Edition New edition Published London ; Sydney : Vintage, 1997 London ; North Sydney : Vintage, 1997

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	827.03 W587 A6/F 1997		AVAILABLE
W'PONDS	827.03 W587 A6/F 1997		AVAILABLE
MELB	827.03 W587 A6/F 1997		AVAILABLE
MELB	827.03 W587 A6/F 1997		AVAILABLE
MELB	827.03 W587 A6/F 1997		AVAILABLE

Description 405 pages ; 21 cm Summary Set in Australia in the 1840s, A FRINGE OF LEAVES combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of aborigines, along with the rest of the passengers and crew. In the course of her escape, she is torn by conflicting loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class Notes First published: Great Britain : Jonathan Cape, 1976 Subject Shipwreck survival -- Fiction Survival -- Fiction Airplane crash survival -- Fiction Historical fiction Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction Shipwrecks -- Queensland -- Fiction SUBJECT Australia -- Fiction Queensland -- Fiction Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction Genre/Form Historical fiction Historical fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Australian fiction ISBN 9781864711486 (paperback)

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