The Switherby pilgrims /
Eleanor Spence ; Illustrated by Corinna Gray
- London : Oxford University Press, 1967.
- 170 pages : 22 cm Illustrations ;
In 1825, concerned for the future of her ten orphan charges in the grim factory towns of their native England, Miss Arabella Braithewaite, known to the children as Missabella, decides to take a land grant in Australia and makes the long, daunting journey with her wards to the austere bush country of New South Wales.
188393799X (pbk. : acidfree paper)
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Orphans--Fiction. Immigrants--Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.