LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jenny kroonstuiver

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  • Cossack Pearl
    Jenny Kroonstuiver
    When Edward Marsden and his son James sailed to the tiny port town of Cossack in the northwest of Western Australia in 1885, they were unprepared for the rough, parochial town and its challenging climate. Arriving soon after the murders of two bank officials in nearby Roebourne, they joined a shaken community still coming to terms with the deaths.Soon joined by Edward’s other t...
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    29,75 €

  • Cossack Pearl
    Jenny Kroonstuiver
    When Edward Marsden and his son James sailed to the tiny port town of Cossack in the northwest of Western Australia in 1885, they were unprepared for the rough, parochial town and its challenging climate. Arriving soon after the murders of two bank officials in nearby Roebourne, they joined a shaken community still coming to terms with the deaths.Soon joined by Edward’s other t...
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    25,29 €

  • Women of Wolfram Camp
    Jenny Kroonstuiver
    When recently widowed Felicity Barclay made a spur-of-the moment decision to apply for a waitressing position at Wolfram Camp, a remote north Queensland mining town she had never heard of before, she never expected to form friendships with four other women who would change her life.Set in 1917, Women of Wolfram Camp follows the lives of five quite different women in the rapidly...
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    30,13 €

  • Women of Wolfram Camp
    Jenny Kroonstuiver
    When recently widowed Felicity Barclay made a spur-of-the moment decision to apply for a waitressing position at Wolfram Camp, a remote north Queensland mining town she had never heard of before, she never expected to form friendships with four other women who would change her life.Set in 1917, Women of Wolfram Camp follows the lives of five quite different women in the rapidly...
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    25,33 €

  • The Sandalwood Cutter
    Jenny Kroonstuiver
    Wally Murdoch, a sandalwood cutter, decides to abandon the camping life and move his small family to the remote town of Ora Banda. It is 1920 and the Western Australian sandalwood industry is growing rapidly to meet the demands of Chinese customers. As Wally and Hannah settle into the small community, they become embroiled in the political machinations which affect the sandalwo...
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    32,82 €

  • The Sandalwood Cutter
    Jenny Kroonstuiver
    Wally Murdoch, a sandalwood cutter, decides to abandon the camping life and move his small family to the remote town of Ora Banda. It is 1920 and the Western Australian sandalwood industry is growing rapidly to meet the demands of Chinese customers. As Wally and Hannah settle into the small community, they become embroiled in the political machinations which affect the sandalwo...
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    25,57 €

  • The Water Bag
    Jenny Kroonstuiver
    Jenny Kroonstuiver has lived and worked in most states of Australia, predominantly in remote areas, from the pastoral industry in Western Australia, to Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory, to the mining towns of Mt Isa and Kalgoorlie. The final stages of her working life saw her working Australia-wide. In The Water Bag she recalls stories from her relatively unusual childh...
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    15,60 €

  • Nod to the Admiral
    Jenny Kroonstuiver
    For Bluey and Molly Turner, 1901 brings a big change: a baby on the way and the purchase of the Trafalgar Hotel in the tiny mining town of Trafalgar in the Western Australian goldfields. They find themselves thrust into the lifestyle of a rapidly growing mining town of diverse personalities and politics amidst learning how to run a new business. Overlooking them all is the pain...
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    20,21 €

  • The Memory Chest
    Jenny Kroonstuiver
    The discovery of a forgotten memory chest and an exquisite china bell from underneath the floorboards of a recently demolished house in Boulder, Western Australia, leads Susan Robinson on a fascinating search to identify the original owners. Her investigations take her back to the early 1900s and the life of Katja, a young Croatian woman who finds herself unexpectedly uprooted ...
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    17,07 €

  • They came to Glengallan
    Jenny Kroonstuiver
    ’They came to Glengallan’ traces the heritage of the eight families, including the Lees and Pointons, who were closely involved in the settlement of the Kilcoy region, Darling Downs and western Queensland. Many of them went on to become magistrates, bankers and well-established community leaders. For families such as the Lees, Deuchars and Allans, Australia offered new challeng...
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    17,10 €

  • Winton
    Jenny Kroonstuiver
    ‘Winton’ begins with the story of Bill and Beat Swann who met and married in Hillston NSW in 1926. The story of their farming life through two wars, the depression and their later years is told through the eyes of their eldest and youngest sons, two of their fourteen children.The book then traces the stories of the fifteen people who arrived in Australia in the mid-nineteenth C...
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    17,61 €

  • Glimpses of Jean
    Jenny Kroonstuiver
    Australian-born to Yugoslav parents, Jean Zuvela was among the pioneers who established a Lime Kiln community over 300 kms east of Kalgoorlie, in Western Australia, in the 1920s. She tells the story of her early childhood experiences in the mining town of Gwalia, as well as Spearwood and Kalgoorlie, so often tinged with tragedy.In the 1920s she joined the small Yuogslav communi...
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    11,74 €