The Resource Beneath the Southern Cross
Beneath the Southern Cross
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The item Beneath the Southern Cross represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Beneath the Southern Cross represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- A riveting novel that tells the story of Sydney and the people who shaped its character, its skyline and its heart.In 1788, Thomas Kendall, a naïve nineteen-year-old sentenced to transportation for burglary, finds himself bound for Sydney Town and a new life in the wild and lawless land beneath the Southern Cross.Thomas fathers a dynasty that will last more than two hundred years. His descendants play their part in the forging of a nation, but greed and prejudice see an irreparable rift in the family which will echo through the generations.It is only at the dawn of the new Millennium - as an old journal lays bear a terrible secret - that the family can finally reclaim its honour...Beneath the Southern Cross is as much a story of a city as it is a family chronicle. Bringing history to life, Judy Nunn traces the fortunes of Kendall's descendants through good times and bad, wars and social revolutions to the present day, vividly drawing the events, characters and issues that have made the city of Sydney and the nation of Australia what they are today
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- 9781742741840
- Label
- Beneath the Southern Cross
- Title
- Beneath the Southern Cross
- Summary
- A riveting novel that tells the story of Sydney and the people who shaped its character, its skyline and its heart.In 1788, Thomas Kendall, a naïve nineteen-year-old sentenced to transportation for burglary, finds himself bound for Sydney Town and a new life in the wild and lawless land beneath the Southern Cross.Thomas fathers a dynasty that will last more than two hundred years. His descendants play their part in the forging of a nation, but greed and prejudice see an irreparable rift in the family which will echo through the generations.It is only at the dawn of the new Millennium - as an old journal lays bear a terrible secret - that the family can finally reclaim its honour...Beneath the Southern Cross is as much a story of a city as it is a family chronicle. Bringing history to life, Judy Nunn traces the fortunes of Kendall's descendants through good times and bad, wars and social revolutions to the present day, vividly drawing the events, characters and issues that have made the city of Sydney and the nation of Australia what they are today
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- Nunn, Judy
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- dictionaries
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- Historical Fiction
- Fiction
- Label
- Beneath the Southern Cross
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:2a041a2a-5778-494a-9bf6-58afabf0fafa
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
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- True
- Isbn
- 9781742741840
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- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- Beneath the Southern Cross
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:2a041a2a-5778-494a-9bf6-58afabf0fafa
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781742741840
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
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