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Issue Details: First known date: 1970... 1970 Conquest of the River
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'Young Shawn joins the 'River Queen' with Cap'n Elijah and his crew - including the Chinese cook, Charlee, whom Shawn saves from a shark by some skilful handling of a leg of mutton. But the 'Queen' is old, and when the river floods it takes all Shawn's courage and her crew's skill to save her and the river settlement from destruction.' (Source: Back cover)

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon The River Kings Rob George , ABC Television (publisher), ( dir. Donald Crombie ) Australia : ABC Television Prospect Productions , 1991 Z924020 1991 single work film/TV children's

In the 1920s, Shawn Hofner is growing to manhood, while battling to survive and save his family from poverty. In order to help bring in money, he leaves the family farm to take a job working on the steamboat The Lazy Jane.

Notes

  • Sequel to The River Kings

Affiliation Notes

  • Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as the work contains a Chinese cook.
  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Chinese character.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Methuen ,       1970 .
      Extent: 158p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0416144802
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Magnet ,       1981 .
      Extent: 158p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 041687620X (pbk)
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  • Also sound recording.
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Works about this Work

Australiana Eve Pownall , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 47, 51)
— Review of Do You Remember What Happened Jean Chapman , 1969 single work picture book ; Conquest of the River Max Fatchen , 1970 single work children's fiction ; The Wishing Tree Wilma J. Ransom , 1969 single work children's fiction
Australiana Eve Pownall , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 47, 51)
— Review of Do You Remember What Happened Jean Chapman , 1969 single work picture book ; Conquest of the River Max Fatchen , 1970 single work children's fiction ; The Wishing Tree Wilma J. Ransom , 1969 single work children's fiction
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Subjects:
  • Murray River,
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