The map of William / Michael Thomas.
Material type: TextPublisher: Fremantle, WA : Fremantle Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 285 pages : maps ; 24 cmContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760992187Subject(s): Young men -- Fiction | Surveyors -- Fiction | Cartography -- Australia -- History -- Fiction | Voyages and travels -- Australia -- Fiction | Pilbara (W.A.) -- Fiction | Western Australia -- History -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Historical fiction. | Bildungsromans. DDC classification: A823.94 Summary: Western Australia, 1909. Fifteen-year-old William Watson sets off from Fremantle on the steamer SS Doreen May, his father's wide-eyed assistant on a north-west expedition. As the pair travel north over sea and across land, William will meet fine men, and foul. He will lose his heart and find his bearings on a map marked with more danger and splendour than one young man could ever have dared to dream.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"A surveyor's son, a cantankerous camel and the expedition of a lifetime" -- cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Western Australia, 1909. Fifteen-year-old William Watson sets off from Fremantle on the steamer SS Doreen May, his father's wide-eyed assistant on a north-west expedition. As the pair travel north over sea and across land, William will meet fine men, and foul. He will lose his heart and find his bearings on a map marked with more danger and splendour than one young man could ever have dared to dream.
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