Author: Eldershaw, M. Barnard.
Title: A House Is Built [Kessinger Legacy Reprints].
Description: USA Kessinger Publishing, 2010. Reprint ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, bottom corner front cover little creased, minor edgewear. 359 pp. Facsimile edition. A novel, by M. Barnard Eldershaw, of whaling days in early Sydney 1837 - 1887. Tells the story of the fortunes of James Hyde, an ex-Navy quartermaster, who starts business as a merchant on Sydney's waterfront in 1837. Originally published in 1929, and co-winner of The Bulletin Prize, 1928. (A secondhand printed copy of a print-on-demand book.). ISBN: 9781162788661

Keywords: australian fiction, historical fiction, maritime, whaling, new south wales (nsw), sydney, facsimile edition 9781162788661


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