This is a story of pioneers in New South Wales in the days when convicts deported from England were assigned to the venturesome few who dared the perils and the climate of the interior, and opened up the virgin lands....The story is based on an account of Oxley's discovery of the Peel River in 1818 and is told by a man who has grown up in the valley, with the formidable mountain fastnesses as his playground, and his mind enthralled from childhood with hero-worship of those who braved heart-breaking isolation, the perils of drought and flood, and the terrors of massacre, to build a new country from a wilderness.' Publisher's blurb opposite the title page.
