TY - BOOK AU - Spence, Eleanor. TI - The Switherby Pilgrims: A tale of the Australian bush SN - 9781883937997 PY - 2005/// CY - Bathgate, ND PB - Bethlehem Books KW - Orphans. Immigrants KW - Fiction KW - New South Wales. KW - frontier and pioneer life KW - Australia KW - Historical Fiction. N2 - In 1825, concerned for the future of her ten orphan charges in the grim factory towns of their native England, Miss Arabella Braithewaite, known to the children as Missabella, decides to take a land grant in Australia and makes the long, daunting journey with her wards to the austere bush country of New South Wales ER -