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The anthology of colonial Australian adventure fiction
- Title
- The anthology of colonial Australian adventure fiction / edited by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver.
- Publication
- Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR9619.3.G425 A15 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vi, 225 pages; 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 eanred 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Adventure fiction.
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Romans.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-224).
- Contents
- Colonial Australian adventure fiction / Ken Gelder and Rachel Weaver -- The hurricane;, or, False friends (1861) / Horace Earle -- Cambromatta Station : a sticking-up-and-shooting-down (1867) / James Skipp Borlase -- Cousin Lucy's story / Ellen Liston (1869) -- Two days at Michaelmas (1875) / N. Walter Swan -- At the Melbourne Cup (1892) / Douglas Sladen -- The last of the bushrangers (1892) / Francis Adams -- The hut-keeper and the cattle-stealer (1894) / Ernest Favenc -- A Queensland Iliad (1894) / Hume Nisbet -- Billy Binks -- hero (1898) / Guy Boothby -- Dead men's tales (1898) / Charles Junor -- Fighting the flood (1898) / William Sylvester Walker -- 'His luck' (1899) / Lala Fisher -- My visit to a woolshed (1904) / Laura Palmer-Archer -- Bushed (1907) / Rosa Praed -- Julius Adolphus Jenkins's Christmas alligator (1909) / Louis Becke -- The hand (1928) / M. L. Skinner -- Fourteen fathoms by Quetta Rock (1928) / Randolph Bedford.
- ISBN
- 9780522858617
- 0522858619
- LCCN
- 2011431435
- OCLC
- ocn748331011
- 748331011
- SCSB-1625712
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library