Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush Life (Pocket Classics)

Harry Heathcote depicts the struggles of a young Englishman who becomes an Australian sheep-farmer establishing himself. Harry Heathcote, had leases 120,000 acres of bush from the Australian government, on which he runs 30,000 sheep. With him at Gangoil is his wife, two small sons and his sister-in-law Kate Daly. Based on the experiences of Trollope's younger brother, the novel works within the Christmas book conventions established by Dickens in the 1840s.