Im Mittelpunkt dieses breit angelegten historischen Abenteuer- und Familienromans steht die Konfrontation zwischen weissen Siedlern, Sträflingen und Ureinwohnern im Australien des 19. Jahrhunderts.
Australia Serie
Questa vasta saga trasporta i lettori nelle immense terre dell'outback australiano, intrecciando le vite di personaggi indimenticabili con la natura selvaggia e indomita. Seguite i protagonisti nei loro viaggi pieni di avventura, amore e perdita, su uno sfondo di aspra bellezza. La serie esplora temi duraturi di sopravvivenza, legami familiari e la ricerca di appartenenza in una terra stimolante ma affascinante.
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Queensland um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Leidenschaft flammt wie ein Buschfeuer auf zwischen der jungen Politiker-tochter Laura und dem Farmer Paul McNamara. Doch im Kampf um die heiße Erde des Landes stehen sie auf verschiedenen Seiten ...
On Emerald Downs
- 544pagine
- 20 ore di lettura
Ten years after he first took shelter with the Queensland Aborigines, Jack Drew - an escaped convict - has decided the time has come to return to civilisation. He finds employment on a back-country farm called Emerald Downs, and when the owner, Major Ferrington, is ordered to roust the Aborigines who have been terrorising the area, Jack is horrified to find he must go with him as a scout. The farm is left in the hands of Adrian Pinnock - the brother of Major Ferrington's fiancée, Jessie - but when Jessie herself insists on accompanying him dealings on the once well-ordered estate take a very different course. It soon becomes clear that the shattering events of these frontier times will give new meaning to all their lives...
Mango Hill
- 448pagine
- 16 ore di lettura
A ruthless aristocrat and an Irish squatter, Lord Jasin Heselwood and Pace MacNamara arrived in Australia with a hunger for land and a hatred of each other. Pace's pioneering spirit lives on through his three sons, John Pace, Paul, and Duke, who find themselves at odds over their late mother Dolour's extraordinary will. Youngest son Duke is determined his brothers will not stand in the way of his ambitions, and purchases the splendid Mango Hill cattle station. Eager for land and rejected by the woman he loves, he joins a team heading west with a thousand head of cattle and encounters Edward, son of scheming Lord Heselwood. But bloodshed is on the horizon, as the group moves relentlessly towards a gathering storm of war with the warrior tribes of the great Kalkadoon nation.