Point of Departure: The Autobiography of Jean DevannyUniversity of Queensland Press, 1986 - 332 pages |
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... Ferntown , a pioneering settle- ment straggling along the shores of a tidal inlet of Golden Bay , about twenty miles from the spit that Captain Cook named Cape Farewell . In back of Ferntown , there was a valley some five miles wide by ...
... Ferntown , a pioneering settle- ment straggling along the shores of a tidal inlet of Golden Bay , about twenty miles from the spit that Captain Cook named Cape Farewell . In back of Ferntown , there was a valley some five miles wide by ...
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... Ferntown to Cape Farewell , the way to it partly tracing the feet of the coastal hills , and partly lying across mudflats . ( Halfway , a small settlement marked that spot in Golden Bay on which Captain Cook and some of his men had ...
... Ferntown to Cape Farewell , the way to it partly tracing the feet of the coastal hills , and partly lying across mudflats . ( Halfway , a small settlement marked that spot in Golden Bay on which Captain Cook and some of his men had ...
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... Ferntown . The women pop- ped in and out of each other's houses at any time of day , to drink tea and gossip . Saturday night , a dance was held in the miners ' hall , to the music of violin and piano supplied by two of a group of newly ...
... Ferntown . The women pop- ped in and out of each other's houses at any time of day , to drink tea and gossip . Saturday night , a dance was held in the miners ' hall , to the music of violin and piano supplied by two of a group of newly ...
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