Jenny Kroonstuiver

Gebundenes Buch

Cossack Pearl

Beschreibung

When Edward Marsden and his son James sailed to the tiny port town of Cossack in the northwest of Western Australia in 1885, they were unprepared for the rough, parochial town and its challenging climate. Arriving soon after the murders of two bank officials in nearby Roebourne, they joined a shaken community still coming to terms with the deaths. Soon joined by Edward's other two children, the Marsden family carved out a new life, forming unique friendships and becoming part of the fabric of the Cossack community, among them William Shakespeare Hall, former explorer and pioneer of the northwest. Cossack was often murderous, confronting and challenging, with a mixture of nationalities supporting a pearling industry, pastoral stations and gold rushes. But it was a town its people loved and fought for. In her unique style, Jenny Kroonstuiver blends carefully researched historical events and real characters with the fictional Marsden family, at a time when Cossack was at its peak in the late nineteenth century. Cossack Pearl provides a fascinating glimpse of a once vibrant and turbulent town that is now just a few immaculately restored buildings and a tourist attraction.

Autor

Born in the 1950s, Jenny Kroonstuiver spent her childhood living on pastoral stations firstly in western Queensland and then on the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia. She trained as a teacher and spent several years teaching in country areas of the Northern Territory and Queensland, before returning to Kalgoorlie in the 1980s. After a short-lived marriage, she raised her four children alone, continuing to work in the broader education sector. From 2004, she took up a role managing the national training system for the Australian meat industry, a role she held until her retirement in 2020. After publishing several family histories and biographies, this is her second novel in the series of the lost towns of the Eastern Goldfields of WA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tellwell Talent
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 132mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781834181486
• ISBN-10: 1834181488
• Artikelnr.: 74410957