{"product_id":"the-foundling-mary-talbot-cross-9781923214644","title":"The Foundling: A tale of the Burra Burra Mine with Fortune's Fool: The road beyond Eureka","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE FOUNDLING. \u003c\/strong\u003eAbandoned as a baby, taunted as a child, Julia Stephen - the Foundling of the title - learns to survive in the West Country of England until her adoptive Methodist family sets sail for South Australia in the earliest years of European settlement, in search of a better life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNecessity takes them north, to work for the South Australian Mining Association of the Burra Burra, whose regime rates the workforce far below the appeal of profi ts. When Julia settles in the Company township called Kooringa, her past returns to haunt her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho is the mysterious packman from Julia's Devon childhood who follows her through the streets of Kooringa township? What is the grim secret she uncovers in the dank squalor of a dugout in the Burra Burra Creek?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFORTUNE'S FOOL.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ballarat in the goldrush of the early 1850s. A place of glittering promise and deep despair; where hidden resentments will swell into open rebellion against the colonial government in December 1854.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this male-dominated sex-starved shantytown comes Miss Julia Stephen, seeking her Cornish lover. Quick-witted, resourceful - and unscrupulous - she becomes one of the most successful women on the Victorian diggings. When tensions erupt into bloody rebellion at Eureka, Julia Stephen's life is transformed beyond her wildest dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Talbot Cross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1923214640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781923214644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Carter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d","brand":"Mary Talbot Cross","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965333192959,"sku":"9781923214644","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b1957738-2910-46e7-96f4-4d2f3cdcc880.jpg?v=1767279850","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-foundling-mary-talbot-cross-9781923214644","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}