The lost world of the Wends / Lee-Anne Marie Kling
- Bib ID:
- 8667867
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kling, Lee-Anne Marie, 1963-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- [Flagstaff Hill, S.A.] : Lee-Anne Marie Kling, [2021]
- ©2021
- 1 online resource (219 pages)
- ISBN:
- 9780645123500 (PDF)
- Summary:
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"A Story where the past and present, and vast distances in space intersect... and Boris does what he always does... Eastern Europe, 1848 Prussian War raged, and the Wends as a village, left their homeland, with plans to set sail for Australia. From the Eastern edge of Prussia, they journeyed on a barge destined for Hamburg's port, where they hoped to catch a cheap fare in the cargo-hold of a ship destined for the Promised Great South Land. These villagers, never made their Australian destination. No one ever noticed, nor missed them. The neighbouring villagers assumed they had arrived in the Great Southern Land, and considered them so far away, and too distant to maintain contact. In Adelaide, also, the city for which they headed, the inhabitants were blissfully unaware of their existence. Migrating Prussians had taken their place in the over-flowing cargo-hold and were sailing across the Atlantic to Australia.On this barge, headed by a man, Boris Roach, the Wends sang hymns of praise to God for their liberation from religious persecution, and the war. They looked to the promise of prosperity and freedom to worship God according to the Word. Their hope that their children and their descendants may thrive in their faith in the Promised Land of South Australia. A tale where the nineteenth century meets the twenty-first?" -- Google Books.
- Notes:
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- "Prussian War, 1848, a village of Wends left their home in Eastern Europe, for Australia. They never made it... Nobody missed them... Until now... " -- Cover.
- Cover painting: 'Luthertal' by Lee-Anne Marie Kling.
- War Against Boris 3 -- Series note provided by publisher.
- Subject:
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- Australian fiction -- 21st century
- Barges -- Fiction
- Prussians (Baltic people) -- Australia -- Fiction
- Prussians (Baltic people) -- Australia -- South Australia -- Fiction
- Prussians (Baltic people) -- South Australia -- Fiction
- Science fiction, Australian
- Sorbs -- Australia -- Central Australia -- Fiction
- Sorbs -- Australia -- South Australia -- Fiction
- Sorbs -- Central Australia -- Fiction
- Sorbs -- South Australia -- Fiction
- Space and time -- Fiction
- Voyages and travels -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Barges
- Emigration and immigration
- Prussians (Baltic people)
- Sorbs
- Space and time
- Speculative fiction
- Voyages and travels
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- Central Australia -- Fiction
- Prussia (Germany) -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- Prussia (Germany) -- History -- 1815-1870 -- Fiction
- South Australia -- Adelaide -- Fiction
- South Australia -- Adelaide -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- Australia -- Central Australia
- Australia
- Germany -- Prussia
- South Australia
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