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An English family facing financial ruin accepts a friend’s invitation to settle in New South Wales and purchase a rural estate; the narrative follows their relocation and adjustment to pastoral life on the frontier. Social life and ambitions play out through hunts, races, local festivities, duels, and personal reckonings, while episodes of backstory, loyalty, and rivalry deepen character ties. Encounters with bush dangers, including a great conflagration and armed clashes, test endurance and resourcefulness, and the work balances domestic adaptation with adventure as the household seeks stability and reputation amid an uncertain colonial landscape.

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Title: Babes in the Bush

Author: Rolf Boldrewood

Release date: February 13, 2016 [eBook #51209]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

Credits: E-text prepared by KD Weeks, MWS, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (https://archive.org/details/americana)

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BABES IN THE BUSH


BABES IN THE BUSH

BY
ROLF BOLDREWOOD
AUTHOR OF
‘ROBBERY UNDER ARMS,’ ‘THE MINER’S RIGHT,’ ‘THE SQUATTER’S DREAM,’
‘A COLONIAL REFORMER,’ ETC.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1900
All rights reserved