Kristin Weidenbach

This is the memoir of Alison Brown, the story of the family who created and still manage the oldest Australian owned and run pearling company in the country. The story begins in the 1960s with Alison as a 19-year-old girl who fell in love with the remote tropical Cygnet Bay, on the Dampier peninsula north of Broome. She returned there to marry Bruce and settle into life with him there in a paperbark hut with no electricity or running water. Alison raised her family, helped establish the school, grew vegetables, dried pearl meat, balanced books, did the weather forecasting, expelled unwanted snakes from the toilet, and often managed the business, community and farm while Bruce was at sea. It is a story of courage and persistence, tempered by humour, a sense of adventure and a can-do attitude.… (altro)