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  • Colonial Adventure

    de Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    Adventure was one of the grand narratives of colonisation, which saw European powers sending agents off to new and distant worlds. Their journeys didn't always follow a straight line. Some were shipwrecked, lost or marooned; adventure turned into misadventure. Others left the colony as soon as they arrived. Convicts fled to Timor, China, and South America, while bushrangers roamed the country, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Forger's Wife

    de John Lang ...
    Series Libro 1 - Colonial Australian Popular Fiction
    John Lang was Australia's first locally born novelist, publishing early work in Sydney in the 1840s and going on to write several bestsellers. The Forger's Wife (1856) is a lively adventure novel, set in an unruly colonial Sydney where everyone is on the make. The forger's wife is a young woman who follows her rakish husband out to Australia and struggles to survive as her marriage falls apart. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Anthology Of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction

    de Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    From the editors of The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction comes this fascinating collection of disturbing mysteries and gruesome tales by authors such as Mary Fortune, James Skipp Borlase, Guy Boothby, Francis Adams, Ernest Favenc, 'Rolf Boldrewood' and Norman Lindsay, among many others.In the bush and the tropics, the goldfields and the city streets, colonial Australia is a ... Leer más

    $13.71 USD

  • Colonial Kangaroo Hunt

    de Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, and a source of violent conflict between settlers and Aboriginal people. The kangaroo hunt ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Anthology Of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction

    de Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction collects captivating stories of love and passion, longing and regret. In these tales women arriving in the New World make decisions about relationships and marriage, social conventions, finances and career—and even the future of the nation itself. The 'slim and graceful' Australian girl becomes a new character type: independent, self-possessed ... Leer más

    $14.44 USD

  • Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent

    de Dany Adone, Katrin Althans, Eva Bischoff, Melanie Brück, Norbert Finzsch, Ken Gelder, Helen Gilbert, Anna Haebich, Victoria Herche, Bentley James, David Kern, Catherine Laudine, Philip Mead, Anke Tonnaer, Rachael Weaver, Carsten Wergin, Sandra Williams, Alexis Wright, C.A. Cranston ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the ... Leer más

    $97.19 USD

  • Anthology Of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction

    de Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    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 disasters threaten to wipe any trace of settlement away. Colonial Australian adventure fiction takes its ... Leer más

    $16.60 USD

  • Anthology Of Australian Colonial Gothic Fiction

    de Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver ...
    Grisly corpses, ghostly women and psychotic station-owners populate an unforgiving landscape that is the stuff of nightmares. These compelling stories are the dark underside to the usual story of colonial progress, promise and nation-building, and reveal the gothic imagination that lies at the heart of Australian fiction.This anthology collects the best examples of colonial Australian gothic short ... Leer más

    $13.71 USD

  • Colonial Australian Fiction

    Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy

    de Ken Gelder, Dr Rachael Weaver ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of types appeared in Australian literature: the swagman, the larrikin, the colonial detective, the bushranger, the "currency lass", the squatter, and more. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies' developing sense of identity; others were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and reflecting the social and economic ... Leer más

    $14.79 USD

  • Force and Fraud

    A Tale of the Bush

    de Ellen Davitt ...
    Series Libro 2 - Colonial Australian Popular Fiction
    A bad-tempered squatter is murdered in country Victoria and the local townsfolk are swept up in the rush to solve the crime. Will the squatter's beautiful daughter, Flora McAlpin, save her lover from the gallows? Or is the circumstantial evidence against him too strong?Ellen Davitt's Force and Fraud: A Tale of the Bush is a feisty account of a murder investigation in the colonies that takes the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • An Australian Bush Track

    de J. D. Hennessey ...
    Series Libro 4 - Colonial Australian Popular Fiction
    An Australian Bush Track (1896) is a dark novel, a colonial fantasy-adventure by author J.D. Hennessey in the style of H. Rider Haggard’s She. The story of an expedition into the Queensland interior by a group of speculators hot on the trail of fabulous wealth, its heroine is a charismatic young bushwoman equipped with heedless courage, a fast horse and a rifle. The novel is unrepressed in its ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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    65 Stories Beyond Sherlock Holmes!

    de Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Most people know Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes. But he was a prolific writer throughout his long career, producing far more than just the Holmes mysteries. This volume assembles 65 of his non-Sherlockian tales, covering a wide range of subjects: mysteries, adventure, supernatural, medical, nautical, and pugelist stories are just the tip of the iceberg! Here, in more than 1,100 pages, ... Leer más

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