With her husband, Will, six children, two servants, some livestock and tools, Eliza Shaw exchanged her world of drawing-rooms and embroidery in Leicestershire for the brushwood huts and back-breaking labour of a pioneer settlement in Western Australia. They were never to see England again...
Months at sea, a disastrous arrival at the infant settlement of Fremantle, the heat, the sand, the hardships and calamities, the brilliant flowers and birds, the strange Aborigines, the courage and comradeship of the small band of settlers - all are recorded here through the eyes of a remarkable woman.
