Pilgrim by Jo Oliver

P I L G R I M

A boy’s first time on the sea with his father in their boat Pilgrim becomes a journey of intimacy and wonder and a celebration of the legacy of past Australians.

JO OLIVER

9 781925 059168

NEW FRONTIER PUBLISHING

ISBN 9781925059168

PILGRIM Jo Oliver

For Jonathan, our sons Thomas, Nathaniel and Edward, and godson Samuel who is already safely home.

PILGRIM

First published in Australia in 2008 This edition published in 2013,

by New Frontier Publishing Pty Ltd ABN 67 126 171 757 Forest Central, Building 7, Unit 4/49 Frenchs Forest Road, Frenchs Forest, NSW 2085 www.newfrontier.com.au Text and Illustrations copyright © 2008 Jo Oliver This book is copyright.

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All rights reserved National Library of Austalia Cataloguing-in-Publication data: Oliver, Jo. 1960–.

Pilgrim.

For primary school children.

ISBN 9781925059168 (pbk.).

1. Father and sons – Fiction. I. Title.

A823.4 Designed by Ronald Proft

Jo Oliver

pilgrim n. 1. One who journeys, esp. long distance, to some sacred place. 2. Poetic. A traveller or wanderer.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them. Anzac Ode of Remembrance from Laurence Binyon’s To the Fallen.

Pilgrim is our boat.

My great-grandfather built it after he came home from the war.

I wake up in the dark and remember.

Today I am going out to sea for the first time.

I wonder if Dad knows I am a little afraid.