| Main Title: |
The anthology of colonial Australian adventure fiction / edited by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver. |
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| Author: |
Gelder, Kenneth.
Weaver, Rachael.
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| Imprint: |
Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2011. |
| Collation: |
vi, 225 p. ; pbk, 24 cm. |
| Summary: |
Marauding bushrangers, lost exploerers, mad shepherds, new chums and mounted troopers: these are some of the characters who populate the often perilous world of colonial Australian adventure fiction. Squatters defend their hard earned properties from attack, while floods and other natural disasters threaten to wipe any trace of settlement away. Colonial Australian adventure fiction takes its characters on a journey into remote and unfamiliar territory, often in pursuit of wealth and well being. But these journeys are invariably fraught with danger, and everything comes at a price. |
| Subject: |
Australian literature
Anthologies
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| ISBN: |
9780522858617 (pbk.) |
| Notes: |
Contents: Colonial Australian adventure fiction / Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver p1. The hurricane, or False friends / Horace Earle p13. Cambromatta Station: a sticking-up-and-shooting-down adventure / James Skipp Borlase p24. Cousin Lucy's story / Ellen Liston p38. Two days at Michaelmas / N. Walter Swan p49. At the Melbourne Cup / Douglas Sladen p62. The last of the bushrangers / Francis Adams p77. The hut-keeper and the cattle-stealer / Ernest Favenc p98. A Queensland Iliad / Hume Nisbet p106. Billy Binks: hero / Guy Boothby p117. Dead men's tales / Charles Junor p142. Fighting the flood / William Sylvester Walker p156. 'His luck' / Lala Fisher p171. My visit to a woolshed / Laura Palmer-Archer p176. Bushed / Rosa Praed p182. Julius Adolphus Jenkins's Christmas alligator / Louis Becke p192. The hand / M.L. Skinner p202. Fourteen fathoms by Quetta Rock / Randolph Bedford p206. Notes on the authors p216. Publication sources p223. Acknowledgements p225.
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