'The Swan River Settlement was in its infancy when the London Lass set sail with its cargo of emigrants to this strange new world. Proud or humble, adventurous or ambitious, those who rubbed shoulders in this perilous journey were so diverse that their passions and frustrations were bound to end in more than one human tragedy...it is a colouful gallery, implicit with the drama of conflicting personalities. High adventure is the keynote of this story of a fateful journey to Western Australia.' (Back cover.)