Searching for the secret river

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First published 2006 by The Text Publishing Company
This edition published 2008

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Portrait of Solomon Wiseman c. 1820–38, oil painting, reproduced with permission of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. ‘Wiseman’s villa’ c. 1835, watercolour, S. H. Ervin Gallery Collection, reproduced with permission of the National Trust of Australia (NSW). Map by Tony Fankhauser

National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Grenville, Kate, 1950–
Searching for the secret river / Kate Grenville.
ISBN: 9781921351860 (pbk.)
Grenville, Kate, 1950– —Secret river.
Wiseman, Solomon, 1778–1838.
Convicts—New South Wales—Biography.
Squatter settlements—New South Wales.
Wisemans Ferry (N.S.W.)—History.
994.402092

9781921776397_0004_002

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