Book Description
Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library book with no external stickers. Date due slip on inside page. Minor edgewear. Book is clean and binding is very good.
In 1846, Leandre Fonteinne, a young French monk, formed part of the first Salvado/Serra expedition to the site that would become the mission of New Norcia. A tragic accident there, however, hastened his return to France.
It also records, in fascinating detail, life in the nineteenth century Swan River Colony and in France. Fonteinne was not a man of action, rather a fly on the wall, but a fly with a tape recorder. He gives us the rumour, the tensions, the slights, the hopes, the speculations that filled the missionaries (publisher blurb)