Paving The Way

A Romance of the Australian Bush

by Simpson Newland

Rigby, 1950, illustrated endpapers (maps), hardcover

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, discolouration to some pages, soiling to bottom edge corner, some rubbing and decolouration to covers in general (See photographs)

“First published in 1893, this is a novel about Australian pioneer life in the 1800s. It follows the life of Roland Grantley, an English youth, who, after being shipwrecked in 1840 near Kingston SE, South Australia and escaping the subsequent massacre, settled at the whaling station at The Bluff. He went on to become a pioneering squatter, developing sheep stations in the Tatiara and the upper Darling River region.”