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Author Satchell, William.

Title The toll of the bush
Published Chicago : Auckland University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (552 pages)
Contents Cover; Copyright ; Contents; Introduction; Locality Map; I: On the Road to the Section; II: The Brothers; III: Ploughing the Land; IV: Sandy Milward Makes an Offer; V: The Bush Oracle; VI: The Service on the Beach; VII: Mr. Fletcher Reads His Letters; VIII: The Priest and the Lover; IX: The Red Line in the Ledger; X: The Growing of the Crop; XI: Lena Consults the Oracle; XII: An Excursion in Literature; XIII: The Voices; XIV: The Incident on the Bush Road; XV: The Man from England; XVI: Mr. Wickener Goes Afield; XVII: The Cloud in the Sky; XVIII: Mrs. Gird Advises; XIX: 'I Have No Mother'
XX: On the BeachXXI: The Dividing of the Ways; XXII: Striking the Blow; XXIII: The Night of the Dance; XXIV: The Affair of the Slip-rail; XXV: The Husband's Return; XXVI: Fire!; XXVII: Major Milward Asks Questions; XXVIII: The Dark Lady; XXIX: The Bride; XXX: God's Way; XXXI: The Fire in the Settlement; XXXII: Together; XXXIII: In the Heart of the Bush; XXXIV: The Toll is Paid; XXXV: Major Milward Plays a Game of Chess; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography
Summary First published in 1905, The Toll of the Bush is widely regarded as William Satchell's best work. Set in the Hokianga district in the early twentieth century, it is an engaging portrayal of pioneer farming and trading on that lonely margin between sea and bush, where jealousies and intrigues punctuate the lives of the heroes and heroines. Above all, the brooding forest watches and waits to exact its toll on those who have sought to tame it. Kendrick Smithyman's introduction brings out a parallel, in the fusion of the legendary elements and a colonial setting, with Nathaniel H
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Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- New Zealand -- Hokianga County -- Fiction
Farm life -- New Zealand -- Hokianga County -- Fiction
Pioneers -- New Zealand -- Hokianga County -- Fiction
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Australian & Oceanian.
FICTION -- General.
Pioneers
Farm life
Frontier and pioneer life
SUBJECT Hokianga County (N.Z.) -- Fiction
New Zealand -- Fiction
Subject New Zealand
New Zealand -- Hokianga County
Genre/Form Pastoral fiction
Novels
Historical fiction
Fiction
Action and adventure fiction
Novels.
Historical fiction.
Pastoral fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Romans.
Romans pastoraux.
Form Electronic book
Author Smithyman, Kendrick, writer of introduction.
ISBN 9781869406974
1869406974
9781775582090
1775582094
1775586650
9781775586654