An All Consuming Passion. The Life Of Georgiana Molloy

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1994
Edition: First Edition

Description: 398 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This epic story of settlement and colonization is, specifically, the story of the settlement of the southeast of Western Australia. At its heart is the story of Georgiana Molloy and the Bussells, pioneer settlers of Western Australia. The book uses Georgiana's life-story to tease out and weave together a number of big themes: the conquest of nature, war, religion, beginnings (in Aboriginal myth, scientific theory and settler society), and landscape history (as explored in Carter's "The Road to Botany Bay"). At the centre of this vast canvas linking the settlement of the Swan River colony to the economic and scientific forces at work in Europe, is the story of the life of one pioneer - Georgiana Molloy. William J. Lines is the author of "Taming the Great South Land".

ISBN: 9781863735537