Robert James Lawler

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When James Lawler sees his family, his friends and his very way of life threatened by the Potato Famine in Ireland in the 1800s, he takes a gamble and places his wife and his young family on a ship bound for the colony of New South Wales in distant Australia. It is a choice that will change his life forever. In Australia nothing looks familiar. James is a farming man, and those skills take him deep into the Australian bush, to frontier country, where life becomes an extraordinary struggle against the unforgiving Australian landscape. James' ambition is to see his family settled and safe on land they can call their own, but what lengths must he go to see that dream become a reality?