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Issue Details: First known date: 1956... 1956 Goonoo Goonoo
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This is the story of Robin Carmody and of his family, who left England when he was three years old to settle in New South Wales...Within a few years the Carmodys settled on the Goonoo Goonoo station in the Peel River valley...a thrilling story of what life was really like in those early years of the development of New South Wales.' (Publisher's blurb on the frontispiece).

Notes

  • Dedication: Dedicated to the Memory of the Pioneers of the Peel River Country
  • Author's Introduction:'Many of the people featuring in this narrative really lived, and I have endeavoured to depict them as I believe them to have been...Andrew Carson, the Kanes, Bill McWilliams, the native characters and the cattle duffers are imaginary persons, but true to type.' p.viii.

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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Cassell ,       1956 .
      Extent: 271p.
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  • Peel River, Gunnedah area, Central West NSW, New South Wales,
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