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The Pioneers

by Katharine Susannah Prichard

The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Donald Cameron are free-settlers who make a home in the wilderness and grow a prosperous cattle operation that establishes their position as prominent members of the new settlement.

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English

Original Language

English

Published In

1915

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Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883 to Australian parents. She spent her childhoo...

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