Author: Sue Cox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648028697
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Lord Cockburn cleared his throat. All I could remember were his last words, `¿ transported beyond the seas for seven years ¿¿ Time stopped as I tried to concentrate on those words. I think I cried out. My dreams of returning home were shattered into a million pieces ¿ Jeannie, a doughty Scots lass, is convicted of crimes she did not commit and transported from her beloved lowland Scottish countryside. She endures four gruelling months sailing to ¿demon¿s land¿ and has to deal with the heartbreak of leaving all she knew and loved for a fearful, far-away unknown. Her new life of servitude is filled with long hours of physical toil and emotional suffering. But Jeannie has an inner resilience and a strength born out of new friendships that will see her survive and create a life in Van Diemen¿s Land. This is a harrowing tale of incarceration, sentencing, transportation and servitude; a story of fortitude and perseverance, binding friendships and a mother¿s love.¿ a tough and authentic book that ¿ illuminates the saga of white settlement in Australia through its focus on a single woman.¿Ian Heads, OAM, author & historian
Banished Beyond the Seas
Author: Sue Cox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648028697
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Lord Cockburn cleared his throat. All I could remember were his last words, `¿ transported beyond the seas for seven years ¿¿ Time stopped as I tried to concentrate on those words. I think I cried out. My dreams of returning home were shattered into a million pieces ¿ Jeannie, a doughty Scots lass, is convicted of crimes she did not commit and transported from her beloved lowland Scottish countryside. She endures four gruelling months sailing to ¿demon¿s land¿ and has to deal with the heartbreak of leaving all she knew and loved for a fearful, far-away unknown. Her new life of servitude is filled with long hours of physical toil and emotional suffering. But Jeannie has an inner resilience and a strength born out of new friendships that will see her survive and create a life in Van Diemen¿s Land. This is a harrowing tale of incarceration, sentencing, transportation and servitude; a story of fortitude and perseverance, binding friendships and a mother¿s love.¿ a tough and authentic book that ¿ illuminates the saga of white settlement in Australia through its focus on a single woman.¿Ian Heads, OAM, author & historian
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648028697
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Lord Cockburn cleared his throat. All I could remember were his last words, `¿ transported beyond the seas for seven years ¿¿ Time stopped as I tried to concentrate on those words. I think I cried out. My dreams of returning home were shattered into a million pieces ¿ Jeannie, a doughty Scots lass, is convicted of crimes she did not commit and transported from her beloved lowland Scottish countryside. She endures four gruelling months sailing to ¿demon¿s land¿ and has to deal with the heartbreak of leaving all she knew and loved for a fearful, far-away unknown. Her new life of servitude is filled with long hours of physical toil and emotional suffering. But Jeannie has an inner resilience and a strength born out of new friendships that will see her survive and create a life in Van Diemen¿s Land. This is a harrowing tale of incarceration, sentencing, transportation and servitude; a story of fortitude and perseverance, binding friendships and a mother¿s love.¿ a tough and authentic book that ¿ illuminates the saga of white settlement in Australia through its focus on a single woman.¿Ian Heads, OAM, author & historian
Wit'ch War
Author: James Clemens
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345453948
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Wit’ch War is the dazzling third volume in the epic saga of The Banned and the Banished In her hands, the young wit’ch Elena holds the awesome energies of blood magick—and more. For the fate of all Alasea hinges on her recovery of the Blood Diary, a potent talisman forged five hundred years ago, then locked away behind wards too strong for any mage to break. But only with the secrets recorded in its pages can Elena defeat the evil magicks of the Dark Lord. The challenge? The Diary lies hidden in A’loa Glen, the fabled city that belongs to Shorkan, chief lieutenant of the Dark Lord, and his fearsome army. Now, with the aid of the ocean-dwelling Sy-wen and her great dragon, Elena prepares a desperate invasion of A’loa Glen. At her side stands the one-armed warrior Er’ril, her faithful protector and the only man who knows how to unlock the wards surrounding the Blood Diary—a man who also happens to be the brother of the dreaded Shorkan. Meanwhile, Elena's brother, whose magick brings him prophetic dreams, has glimpsed a future in which Elena falls by the deadly sword of . . . Er'ril. But his visions do not always come true. How can he act against his sister's trusted guardian on the basis of a future betrayal that may never happen? For Elena's sake, and for the sake of all Alasea, how can he afford not to?
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345453948
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Wit’ch War is the dazzling third volume in the epic saga of The Banned and the Banished In her hands, the young wit’ch Elena holds the awesome energies of blood magick—and more. For the fate of all Alasea hinges on her recovery of the Blood Diary, a potent talisman forged five hundred years ago, then locked away behind wards too strong for any mage to break. But only with the secrets recorded in its pages can Elena defeat the evil magicks of the Dark Lord. The challenge? The Diary lies hidden in A’loa Glen, the fabled city that belongs to Shorkan, chief lieutenant of the Dark Lord, and his fearsome army. Now, with the aid of the ocean-dwelling Sy-wen and her great dragon, Elena prepares a desperate invasion of A’loa Glen. At her side stands the one-armed warrior Er’ril, her faithful protector and the only man who knows how to unlock the wards surrounding the Blood Diary—a man who also happens to be the brother of the dreaded Shorkan. Meanwhile, Elena's brother, whose magick brings him prophetic dreams, has glimpsed a future in which Elena falls by the deadly sword of . . . Er'ril. But his visions do not always come true. How can he act against his sister's trusted guardian on the basis of a future betrayal that may never happen? For Elena's sake, and for the sake of all Alasea, how can he afford not to?
A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors
Author: William Oldnall Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
A Treatise on Crimes and Indictable Misdemeanors
Author: William Oldnall Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin
Author: Charles Haliday
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer
Author: Richard Burn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
Beyond the Sea of Ice
Author: William Sarabande
Publisher: Domain
ISBN: 0553268899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Stunningly visual, extraordinarily detailed, powerfully dramatic, here is the first volume of a remarkable new series . . . The First Americans. When humans first walked the world, when nature ruled the earth and sky, a proud tribe is threatened by a series of natural disasters. A bold young hunter named Torka, who lost his wife and child to a killer mammoth, leads the survivors over the glacial tundra on a desperate eastward odyssey to the save their clan. Through attacks of savage animals and encounters with strangers not unlike themselves, they must brave the hardships of a foreign landscape and learn to live in an exotic new world of mystery and danger. They must travel toward the land where the sun rises for a new day for their clan—and an awesome future for the American.
Publisher: Domain
ISBN: 0553268899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Stunningly visual, extraordinarily detailed, powerfully dramatic, here is the first volume of a remarkable new series . . . The First Americans. When humans first walked the world, when nature ruled the earth and sky, a proud tribe is threatened by a series of natural disasters. A bold young hunter named Torka, who lost his wife and child to a killer mammoth, leads the survivors over the glacial tundra on a desperate eastward odyssey to the save their clan. Through attacks of savage animals and encounters with strangers not unlike themselves, they must brave the hardships of a foreign landscape and learn to live in an exotic new world of mystery and danger. They must travel toward the land where the sun rises for a new day for their clan—and an awesome future for the American.
bks. 1-2
Author: William Blackstone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Books 1 & 2
Author: William Blackstone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Book I and II
Author: William Blackstone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description