The Runaway Settlers
Author(s): Elsie Locke
HarperCollins brings back into print a New Zealand classic. The year is 1859 and the Small family arrives in the new Canterbury colony without a penny to their name. Mother and six children have a hard beginning to their new life - all the more since they are runaways from a cruel father and husband in Australia. But there are adventures ahead ...
Product Information
Elsie Locke was born in 1912, in Hamilton; she passed away in 2001. Elsie has been described as a peace campaigner, environmentalist, novelist, historian, community worker and national treasure. Elsie was also a feminist and socialist who campaigned against nuclear weapons and wrote more than 20 books, including a number of historical novels for children and several social histories of NZ.
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand
- : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- : 0.125
- : 01 March 2009
- : 200x130mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Elsie Locke
- : Paperback
- : NE
- : 823.2
- : 175pp