Physical description

Hard cover book. They Seek a Country
Author: Francis Brett Young
Publisher: William Heinemann Limited
Date: 1937
Further Information: Blue Cloth hardcover,and spine with lettering in white to spine and a personal crest/coat of arms of the English author Francis Brett Young to front cover. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with typed text PAT FIC YOU
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Flyleaf has a stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute

Summary

This volume is a historical novel set in the 1830s, about a young Englishman who is sentenced to transportation to Australia for poaching. He escapes when the ship docks in South Africa, befriends a Boer family and joins their plan to flee British rule by taking part in the Great Trek. A sequel, The City of Gold, followed in 1939. It follows the same family through the Transvaal gold rush, the founding of Johannesburg and the Jameson Raid.