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The Worst Country in the World: The true story of an Australian pioneer family

By Patsy Trench

Book information

Publisher
Prefab Publications
Year
2012
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
552 kB (565649 bytes)
Series
Australia: a personal story #1
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-01-02 15:39:40
Biography & Autobiography; History; Nonfiction; BI

Description

In 1787 a handful of people - convicts, marines and government officials - sail across the world to settle a new colony and call it New South Wales. In 1801 Mary Pitt, a widow with five children, migrates to New South Wales from her home in Dorset to live among these same convicts. Why? Two hundred odd years later Mary's great great great great granddaughter travels to what is now Australia to discover the answer to why her ancestress risked the lives of her entire family to make her home in a penal colony. She uncovers tales of astonishing bravery and bloody-mindedness, the origins of a unique form of class distinction, why her own Australian/English mother was the person she was and how what was once regarded as the worst country in the world became one of the 'luckiest'.

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