Soldier to Settler - SIGNED by author Donald Offwood.

Soldier to Settler - SIGNED by author Donald Offwood.

Publisher: The Caxton Press, 2014. First edition.

Softcover, near new condition, no owner inscriptions.

This dramatized and historically correct novel follows Patrick Murtagh, who as a poor Irish boy joins the British Army in 1820. After serving in India, he is discharged into the famines of the 1840s in Ireland. As a man of 'good character' he is able to re-join the Army in 1847 and come to New Zealand with the offer of his own cottact and schooling for his children, as a Fencible Corp Soldier. In exchange for guarding Auckland for seven years and for the first time in his life he will own something he cannot carry - his own land. After seven years' service he is discharged and in 1860 moves south to Green Island, Dunedin to buy his own small farm and become an Otago Pioneer. An appendix includes the Family Tree of the 1800's. This gripping novel follows on from Donald Offwood's earlier historical novels.

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