Journey of Emmaline : Loraine T. Hurst : 9781646695508 : 164669550X : 10 Jul 2020 : In 1869, Emmalie Gidley-King is born at Chateau Fontenay, a vineyard in the Yarra Valley. After a distressing event involving her older brother their father, Will leaves the vineyard to Emmaline & not Thomas. She is to inherit at twenty-one. Shortly after, Will dies and Emmaline at the age of fourteen is cast out by her mother Madeline. Emmaline is travelling on the Palmer River track with distant relatives when the party is attacked. She survives, alone in the north Queensland wilderness and eventually attaches herself to an Aboriginal tribe in Princess Charlotte Bay. After years of living harmoniously her life takes an abrupt turn. In 1877 she is rescued and taken to Cooktown, where she is delivered into the arms of civilisation. Emmaline compares the two disparate lifestyles and questions the hypocritical morals of so-called civilised people. Ostracised by the people of Cooktown she finds love an