LIBROS DEL AUTOR: lynne cairns

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: lynne cairns

  • Gold Town
    Lynne Cairns
    Gold Town is an historical novel with a female protagonist, set in the gold rush years of late nineteenth century Western Australia. It has elements of mystery and romance, set against the dramatic Australian outback landscape.In 1895, Nora Patterson arrives by stagecoach in the shanty town of Hannans to join her husband, Ned, who had found gold and written asking her to come. ...
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    16,93 €

  • Where Wild Black Swans are Flying
    Lynne Cairns
    'Where the Wild Black Swans are Flying' is an historical novel set in Western Australia's Swan River Colony in the in the first years of white settlement. Becky Lees arrived in the new colony as a baby. She is the child of indentured servants, bound to work for seven years for their master. Conditions in the colony had improved by the time she was seven, but her mot...
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    12,67 €

  • Cast Away
    Lynne Cairns
    Cast Away is a girls’ adventure story that has everything: shipwreck, remote survival, encounters with strange animals, cross-cultural friendship, buried treasure, evil villains, kidnapping, threats of torture, all against the stunning backdrop of Western Australia’s rugged south coast and virgin forests.Katie O’Donoghue, an eleven-year-old Irish servant girl, is the sole survi...
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    8,54 €

  • Secret Fleets
    Lynne Cairns
    Contrary to what many Australians believe, during 1942 Japanese submarines were active in Australian waters and Japanese spy planes made surveillance flights over our major cities. With enemy submarines patrolling off the Western Australian coast, Fremantle became an important international submarine base, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. During the war Fremantle played ...
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    35,65 €