Wetjala: A Record of the Lives of a Young Adventurer and Two British Families Who Migrated to Western Australia and Founded a Number of Australian Families 1829-1989 by Alan Morse

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some minor mrks on foredges. Pages are sunned.

This book follows the life of Thomas George Morse, who left his hometown of Woolwich, England, to seek adventure aboard the Beagle during its historic voyage to Australia in 1837.

After spending three years as a seaman during which the entire Australian coast was circumnavigated, he deserted the ship at Albany and walked to York. Here, he married Mary Ann Wall, also from Britain, who, with her parents, was among the founding white settlers at Swan River in 1829.

Their youngest son married the daughter of another British family, which later migrated to Western Australia. The book tells the story of these families. It follows their lives and the parts they played in the total landscape of the young colony. They were hard pioneering times, and the author vividly describes the challenges and the changing fortunes that confronted the new arrivals.

With a foreword by the Right Hon Sir Paul Hasluck.

Printed for restricted circulation.