Maggie Mackellar (28 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS**** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 STELLA PRIZE **A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home.In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin.Combining pages of her diary, kept through lambing seasons on a wool Merino farm on the east coast of Tasmania, with observations on the world around her, MacKellar writes a stunning thanksgiving on place, mothers, and the ways we cannot escape the elemental laws of nature. Her love for and knowledge of the land on which she lives, the lambs she cares for, and the birds she adores - illustrated in stunning line drawings through the book - are writ large. You will want to leap into the pages and walk beside Maggie as she saves ewes, lambs, tends to her beloved horses and dogs, and considers the challenges and joys of motherhood and farming.Susan Duncan on When It Rains: 'An unforgettable story of love and courage that inspires even as it breaks your heart.' Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Condition: new.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 226 pages. Text lightly tanned My body, suddenly, carries two stories of loss . . . One is easy for people t o recognise. My mother died of cancer. I watched her age twenty-five years in ei ght weeks . . . My other story marks me as different. It is more silent and more savage, it is not pure and no one knows how to approach it. Somewhere I lost my husband.When Maggie's vibrant young husband, father to a five-year-old daught er and an unborn son, dies tragically, Maggie is left widowed and due to give bi rth three months later to their second child. Then her beloved mother, backbone of the family, mother to three children andgrandmother to two, dies suddenly o f aggressive cancer. In two short years, Maggie's life has shattered. After a ye ar, she gives up trying to juggle single motherhood and the demands of an academ ic career and returns with her children to the family farm in central western Ne w South Wales to take stock and catch a breath. The farm becomes a redemptive, h ealing place for Maggie and her children as they battle the heat and drought tha t only the Australian landscape can offer. She throws herself into the horses, s heep, ducks, and chickens and slowly, finally, realizes she has found a new shap e for herself. Written by a brilliant new talent, When It Rains is a meditation on grief and the vagaries of the human condition, and a stunning memoir about pi ecing back together a life, and moving forward, one step at a time.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 330 pp. Spine slightly cocked.

Condition: New. 2008. paperback. . . . . .

Condition: New.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Paperback octavo, good plus condition, corner tips covers slightly creased, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 243 pp. Maggie MacKellar lost her husband in tragic circumstances (suicide), and then her mother died suddenly of aggressive cancer. In 2011, Maggie left the family farm in central west New South Wales and moved to the east coast of Tasmania with her children and an assorted menagerie to live with a farmer. She explores learning to love again after great bereavement, and the complexities of doing this in an unfamiliar community, and with two young children. This is a story about making a new life and a wonderful setting - on a Tasmanian sheep farm in a stone house built by convicts in 1828.…

Condition: New. In English.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS**** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 STELLA PRIZE **A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home.In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin.Combining pages of her diary, kept through lambing seasons on a wool Merino farm on the east coast of Tasmania, with observations on the world around her, MacKellar writes a stunning thanksgiving on place, mothers, and the ways we cannot escape the elemental laws of nature. Her love for and knowledge of the land on which she lives, the lambs she cares for, and the birds she adores - illustrated in stunning line drawings through the book - are writ large. You will want to leap into the pages and walk beside Maggie as she saves ewes, lambs, tends to her beloved horses and dogs, and considers the challenges and joys of motherhood and farming.Susan Duncan on When It Rains- 'An unforgettable story of love and courage that inspires even as it breaks your heart.' Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. 2008. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS**** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 STELLA PRIZE **A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home.In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin.Combining pages of her diary, kept through lambing seasons on a wool Merino farm on the east coast of Tasmania, with observations on the world around her, MacKellar writes a stunning thanksgiving on place, mothers, and the ways we cannot escape the elemental laws of nature. Her love for and knowledge of the land on which she lives, the lambs she cares for, and the birds she adores - illustrated in stunning line drawings through the book - are writ large. You will want to leap into the pages and walk beside Maggie as she saves ewes, lambs, tends to her beloved horses and dogs, and considers the challenges and joys of motherhood and farming.Susan Duncan on When It Rains: 'An unforgettable story of love and courage that inspires even as it breaks your heart.' Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine/very good, used, 1st printing, cream colored paper over boards with gray colored text to spine, bird drawing on upper, illustrated end papers, map, 256pp. Interior clean, no marks, pages near bright, binding tight. Slight rubbing to dj, no chips or tears, corners square but lightly rubbed. Sarah Bird (illustrator).…

8vo. x+302pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; a fine copy. . First edition.

Condition: New. KlappentextDrawing on the extensive collections of the State Library of Victoria, Strangers in a Foreign Land provides rare insight into the realities of early settlement in Victoria.When Niel Black, o.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Strangers in a Foreign Land | Maggie Mackellar | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2015 | Melbourne University | EAN 9780522855128 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu. …

Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -When Niel Black, one of the most influential settlers of the western district of Victoria, stepped onto the sand at Port Phillip Bay in 1839 and declared Melbourne to be 'almost altogether a Scotch settlement' he was paying the newly created outpost of the British Empire his highest compliment. When he then writes in his journal of his servant's wife giving birth in a stable not fit for pigs, he provides both of the realities of early settlement: great personal hardship and danger and the promise of great wealth and success.''Strangers in a Foreign Land'' tells the stories of unknown settlers alongside the drama of Niel Black's renowned journal. There is the mother of a six-week-old baby perched on a wagon in the middle of the bush journeying out to her husband's station. There are Aboriginal women chased down by Black on horseback and Aboriginal warriors who threaten from the edges of the forest. There is Arabella Cooke writing to her sons being educated in England and trying to hold back the tide of loss she feels not having them near her. And there is the memoir of Jane Caverhill who remembers her childhood in the western district.Exploring the extensive collection of the Western District material from the State Library of Victoria, ''Strangers in a Foreign Land'' evokes the physical environment the sense of place and dislocation and the hopes and the anxieties that the early settlers carried with them as they journeyed to make their homes in the western districts. 322 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - When Niel Black, one of the most influential settlers of the western district of Victoria, stepped onto the sand at Port Phillip Bay in 1839 and declared Melbourne to be 'almost altogether a Scotch settlement' he was paying the newly created outpost of the British Empire his highest compliment. When he then writes in his journal of his servant's wife giving birth in a stable not fit for pigs, he provides both of the realities of early settlement: great personal hardship and danger and the promise of great wealth and success.''Strangers in a Foreign Land'' tells the stories of unknown settlers alongside the drama of Niel Black's renowned journal. There is the mother of a six-week-old baby perched on a wagon in the middle of the bush journeying out to her husband's station. There are Aboriginal women chased down by Black on horseback and Aboriginal warriors who threaten from the edges of the forest. There is Arabella Cooke writing to her sons being educated in England and trying to hold back the tide of loss she feels not having them near her. And there is the memoir of Jane Caverhill who remembers her childhood in the western district.Exploring the extensive collection of the Western District material from the State Library of Victoria, ''Strangers in a Foreign Land'' evokes the physical environment the sense of place and dislocation and the hopes and the anxieties that the early settlers carried with them as they journeyed to make their homes in the western districts.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Drawing on the extensive collections of the State Library of Victoria, Strangers in a Foreign Land provides rare insight into the realities of early settlement in Victoria.When Niel Black, one of the most influential settlers of the Western District of Victoria, stepped onto the sand at Port Phillip Bay in 1839 and declared Melbourne to be 'almost altogether a Scotch settlement', he was paying the newly created outpost of the British Empire his highest compliment.His journal, reproduced here in its entirety, provides rare insight into the realities of early settlement in Victoria, detailing experiences of personal hardship and physical danger as well as the potential for accumulating great wealth and success.Drawing on the extensive collections of the State Library of Victoria, Strangers in a Foreign Land also includes glimpses into the lives of other settlers and the indigenous people of the area. It evokes the sense of place and dislocation that the early settlers encountered, and the hopes and anxieties they carried with them as they created new homes in Australia. Tells the stories of unknown settlers alongside the drama of Niel Black's journal. This title includes the story of a mother of a six-week-old baby perched on a wagon in the middle of the bush journeying out to her husband's station. It includes women chased down by Black on horseback and also Aboriginal warriors who threaten from forest. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …