... a tale of two English families, the Toms of Cornwall, and the Listers of Yorkshire, who, migrating from opposite ends of England, were destined to meet at the far ends of the Earth, in Australia, and contribute to the history of their adopted country.

This is also the epic story of a sea-captain in the heroic age of sail, of pioneering settlers in the western district of New South Wales, of the discovery of gold in 1851, of death in battle in two World Wars...

The story begins here...