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The Big Country (Timms novel)

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1962

Author
  
E. V. Timms

Country
  
Australia

Series
  
Great South Land Saga

Originally published
  
1962

Publisher
  
Angus & Robertson

Similar
  
They Came from the Sea, Dark Interlude, The Pathway of the Sun, Lawrence - Prince of Mecca

The Big Country is an Australian novel by E. V. Timms and Alma Timms. It was the eleventh in the Great South Land Saga of novels; E. V. Timms died before it was finished so his wife Alma completed the novel.

Plot

In the 1870s, beyond in Darling River, a half-caste girl, Jenny Courage, searches for her father, George Crumby, who abandoned her and her mother. George has moved to Sydney and prospered. Jenny works on a river board and becomes a housekeeper on an isolated station.

References

The Big Country (Timms novel) Wikipedia