Language English Publication date 1962 Country Australia | 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
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