Abstract:
This is a story of contrasting histories between English free settler and convict families and how they came together in the cities and countryside of New South Wales, Australia. Arriving in the 1830’s and forging new lives as pioneers in a land where the sun shone daily and there was space for all, and opportunities abounded. Based on an amazing array of letters and rich journals left behind by the travelers, the story is highly factual and embellished with an incredible array of supportive research facts and images, along with entertaining descriptive elements of specific incidents and environmental circumstances.