Dutch Point by Barbara Yates Rothwell

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stickers, stamps and date due slip on inisde pages. Wear to book corners and edges. Marks on foredges. Slant to spine. Dust jcaket is heavily worn and creased. Binding is still in good condition.

Historical fiction set in Western Australia.

Spanning 300 years of West Australian history, beginning with the wrecking of a Dutch vessel in the mid-1600s and the survival of a solitary seaman, this story weaves through the days of early settlement and immigration.

Traces the fortunes of five young orphans and their saviour, Mrs Ketteridge, as they sail from England to a new life in Fremantle, Western Australia, and follows them as they establish themselves as the successful Burleigh family.

A second shipwreck, following Singapore's collapse in World War II, revitalises the old mystery: gold coins, Aboriginal myths and a lost child.