Cirrus@Austlit

Dedication: To the memory of my very good friend Arthur Henry Buckley who loved the Australian bush.

Author's note: The period of this story is about 1950.

Foreword by Matt. J. Fox. Sydney, 1944. Editor of The Australia Story Author of History of Queensland History of North-West Australia etc. He describes the work as 'a love story, told with enough charm to demand a halt and to compel the reader to turn back a few pages and begin anew a simple story of love and sacrifice gaining ascendancy over human pride and the rest of the seven deadly sins....Here and there are introduced the half-forgotten legends and half-vanished traditions of our pioneers, against which the Author has built up a very readable novel of romance and adventure, remarkable for its historical authenticity and through which runs a strong vein of religious feeling, nowhere used as a substitute for creative ability.'