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A Chronicle of the Canefields
出版Penguin Books-Virago Press, 1986
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / Literary
ISBN01401615389780140161533
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=J_XyAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"In August 1896 Randolph Biddow's family join him on the sugar-cane plantations of North Queensland. For his wife Blanche, it is an exile in the wilderness; but for their maid Cindie, it is an exciting world of tropical forests, rewarding work and new relationships - with white people, Pacific Islanders and Aborigines alike. Teaching herself the sugar trade Cindie rises from servant to independent woman. By the early 1900s she is the indispensible manager of Biddow's expanded property but her complete happiness is marred by the jealousy and hatred of Blanche. First published in 1949 this is a ... chronicle of plantation life and its challenges, of the racial tensions among workers and the politicking of landowners faced with the economic impact of the Commonwealth Bill. ..."--Back cover.