McKenzie of the Rum Years

By Gordon McLeish

Callum McKenzie, son of a First Fleet Marine, comes of age in Lachlan Macquarie's New South Wales - when brick, roads, and paper still argue with the old Rum Corps world.

From the Clyde to Sydney, Callum learns survey, stone, and the hard politics of a colony being remade. Beside him stands Bess. Around them move Macquarie, Elizabeth, Greenway, Cox, and Bigge - history lived, not lectured.

An adventure of invented McKenzies beside true colonial bones: drains and petitions, assigned hands and emancipist tables, and a household deciding what mastery means.

McKenzie of the Rum Years continues Gordon McLeish's McKenzie saga.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJLQ7XJ7
• ISBN13: 9798173561015
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"