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The fifth title in William Stuart Long's magnificent series, The Australians, continues the story of the pioneers who carved out a life for themselves in the rough and violent colony of New South Wales. The Adventurers opens in 1815. Europe is still shattered by the war with Napoleon and a survivor of Waterloo sets sail for Sydney Town - Lieutenant Rick Tempest RN, brother to Abigail and Lucy and Friend to Justin Broome. On the voyage out, HMS Kangaroo comes across a small boat containing the lone survivor of the Providence, the beautiful American, Kate O'Mallery. Meanwhile in Sydney, Governor Lachlan Macquarie has transformed Sydney from a den of vice into his vision of a town with clean streets, beautiful buildings and good roads leading to newly settled districts. But by doing so he has incurred the lasting displeasure of a parsimonious Foreign Office and the jealousy of his enemies. The end of "the Old Viceroy's' governorship is at hand and once more the colony is thrown into turmoil, a turmoil that will forever leave its mark on their lives of The Adventurers. Hardback Ed 1983 Double Day Books, with Dust Jacket.
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