The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction

by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver

Collects the best examples of colonial Australian adventure fiction, with stories by Ernest Favenc, Louis Becke, Rosa Praed, and many others.

Marauding bushrangers, lost explorers, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522858619
• ISBN13: 9780522858617
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"