Terraweena. A story of a mid-winter vacation in Australia

Illustrated by W. H. C. Groome. London : Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1905. First edition. Octavo, glazed pictorial boards (edges worn), advertisements to lower board, cloth spine (“Chatterbox Library”); school prize label to front free endpaper, pp. 185; [blank]; (6 – advertisements), 4 black-and-white illustrations. Scarce.

Children’s story which begins in Sydney, from whence two schoolboys travel west past the Blue Mountains to one of their father’s stations, ‘Terraweena’, where all sorts of adventures are had, including an encounter with a local indigenous tribe.