The Valley of Cathedral Rock

By Robert D.Giblin

One Christmas in 1808, three young people, unknown to each other at the time, found themselves on the stinking, overcrowded ship The Lady Nora bound for the Colonies. The almost-unknown land New South Wales was to be home to these convicts; slave labour would be their fate for the rest of their natural lives.

By chance, the young convict, Dan Watson and his friend Ned, hatched a daring and perilous plan to escape the viscous floggings of Captain Richard Kempsie, and take the love of his life, Caroline Archer, with them.

Through barely marked land, rugged blue mountains, dramatic craggy gorges and unexpected encounters the three, along with horses, cattle and a dog named Scamp braved new territory to find the land of their dreams.

But would it ever be theirs? Would Captain Kempsie find them and bring them back to face the music, or to be shot on sight?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Plummtree Productions
• Release date: Feb 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201747664

Robert D.Giblin

Robert Giblin, a fifth generation Tasmanian, has born in 1931. Early education was a one-teacher country school and later at Hobart State High School. He left there aged fifteen to start working life as a deckhand on a trading ketch carting timber from Southern Tasmanian mills before studying Horticulture at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. He commenced farming life in 1950, then moved to North Queensland with his family in 1970. His long-held interest in poetry and short-story writing eventually lead to this, his first full length publication: The Valley of Cathedral Rock Robert currently lives in the Far North Queensland town of Cardwell.