The River's Secret

The Rover's Secret

✍ Harry Collingwood 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Aegypan 🌐 English ⚖ 212 KB 👁 1 views

### Product Description Three men were still aloft when the battery, which had hoisted Spanish colors, opened fire upon us, the first shot severing our larboard main- topgallant back-stay. This damage, slight as it was, sufficed to effectually rouse Captain Pigot's hasty, irritable temper; and, hur

The Rover's Secret

✍ Harry Collingwood 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Aegypan 🌐 English ⚖ 243 KB 👁 1 views

William Joseph Cosens Lancaster (1851-1922) was a civil engineer who specialised in seas and harbours. He wrote Juvenile Adventures under the pseudonym Harry Collingwood. His works include: The Secret of the Sands (1879), Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman During the French Revolutionary War

The Secret River

✍ Kate Grenville 📂 Fiction 📅 2007;2008 🏛 Canongate U.S. 🌐 English ⚖ 226 KB 👁 1 views

SUMMARY: In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. "The Secret R

The Secret River

✍ Kate Grenville 📂 Fiction 📅 2007;2008 🏛 Canongate U.S. 🌐 English ⚖ 225 KB

SUMMARY: In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. "The Secret Riv

The Secret River

✍ Kate Grenville 📂 Fiction 📅 2010;2008 🏛 Canongate Books 🌐 English ⚖ 226 KB

London, 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the

The Secret River

✍ Kate Grenville 📂 Fiction 📅 2005;2008 🏛 Canongate Books 🌐 English ⚖ 215 KB

### Review 'In one stroke the author captures both Sullivan's emotional dependence and Will's compassion. Will's relationship with Sal is frequently fortified by such psychological insights. Their mutual awareness gives the couple a convincing weight as well as engaging the reader's sympathy and de