They Came from the Sea by E. V. Timms

They Came from the Sea

by E. V. Timms

Angus and Robertson, 1973, Arkon edition
Hardcover, dustjacket

Condition: Good
Some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing and bumping to corners and covers, ex-lib with stickers and stamps to front and back endpapers, tape residue to covers. Dustjacket in Good condition with a little chipping and some creasing, sticker to spine. (see photographs)

“The strange, untamed, tall-timbered Big Scrub country of the north coast of New South Wales in the 1850s is the backdrop for this gripping novel that opens with fourteen men and women cast adrift from their burning ship in a longboat.  The survivors from the ship, the Sea Queen, had set out from Aukland on a voyage to Sydney – the ex-convict; the man who had been a convict overseer; the good-time girls who had ‘married the ship’’; the red-haired ‘Rissa’ Farthing; and the formidable ‘Squint-eye’ Lush, the Sea Queens’s captain – but fate cast them ashore on a rich, wild coast…”