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| Author | Kylie Tennant |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's fiction |
| Publisher | Macmillan |
Publication date | 1959 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 159pp |
| Preceded by | The Honey Flow |
| Followed by | Trail Blazers of the Air |
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E.B. in The Canberra Times was brief: "Written for children Miss Tennant's new work of fiction is an intelligent story of the missionary stage of the changing pattern of social living for the island people of our near north." [2]
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