The Whittakers Story

At long last, the story of how a pioneering family settledin Australia has come into print. From Britain in the late1700s, with travels from India and to the United Statesand Mexico, running through in Australia until mid-1914,and branching out up to the 1960s, Clyde Whittakerscompiled much more than just a family history.Central to the early narrative is how an Englishwoman ofgreat character, Martha Louisa Moore, rescued herorphaned nieces and brought them from Edinburgh toSydney. She later started Australia's first school foryoung ladies, which she ran in Sydney for twenty years.This book includes writings from Mary Howitt Walker,Reg.W.E. Wilmot, Dora Campbell, Harry H. Peck andMalcolm Ellis.There are also three pieces by the famous Australianauthor Mary Grant Bruce, one of which is her best work,'Port After Stormie Seas'. Here you can find the farmingproperties, and lots of the characters, on which she basedthe 'Billabong' books and so many of her other yarns.