Not Only in Stone by Phyllis Somerville

Not Only in Stone

by Phyllis Somerville

Seal Books, Rigby, 1974, ISBN 085179565X, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, previous owners’ inscription on half title page (see photographs)

"Mary Elizabeth Thomas, with her husband Nathan, her child Richard and her sister Ellen, arrived in South Australia in 1865 after a sea voyage from Cornwall lasting one hundred and six days.  Not Only in Stone tells the story of this Cornish family, one of the many to accept the challenge of settling in a new colony.  After spending a year in the small but flourishing city of Adelaide, Mary Elizabeth or Polly as she was more commonly known, Nathan, and Richard make a new life for themselves at the Wallaroo Mones on Yorke Penisnula, where Nathan takes up the work of copper mining that he was born and bred for.
Not Only in Stone is more than a chronicle of family life.  It gives the reader an authentic picture of the pioneering era in South Australia, describing the hardships that confronted the early colonists and some of the events that go to make up the history of the State.”