In 1855, seventeen-year-old Camille sets out from San Francisco, California, on her last sea voyage before entering a loveless marriage, but when her father's ship is destroyed, she and a friend embark on a cross-Australian quest to find her long-lost mother who holds a map to a magical stone.
year: 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: seafaring life, supernatural, shipwrecks, fathers and daughters, adventure and adventurers, fiction, australia, history, 19th century, fiction