The Dream Seekers

Patricia Shaw

Father Beitz has a dream. From his home in 1870s Hamburg he plans to pioneer an idyllic German community in faraway Australia in a backwoods hamlet barely settled called Bundaberg. He soon finds other dreamers eager to join him thrilled by the prospect of a sunny clime cheap arable land and their own Lutheran society.

But when they arrive they find the land bought for them by Father Beitz is nothing but a jungle and before long it seems the trials of their new home may force the community to disintegrate. As time passes a combination of courage and determination carries the pioneers beyond their fears but a new threat awaits. Only an elderly Aborigine mystic sees the evil that threatens them but can he warn them in time?