137 pages, illustrated with black and white plates. The head is lightly shelf stained, the jacket lightly crushed at the head and the pages lightly tanned, else clean, unmarked and solid. "'In 1904, at the tender age of fourteen, Amelia Musso and her sister Matilde left the rocky shores of Moneglia in Northern Italy to start a new life on the far side of the world. Amelia's grand-daughter Maria Triaca, captures her grandmother's early days in Italy and the first thirty years of her life in Australia' (Front flap) Maria Triaca is Amelia's grand-daughter.