Australian Frontier Tales

by Bill Wannan

Lansdowne Press, 1971, ISBN 701800151, lightly illustrated in text, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping, chipping, creasing and small tears (see photographs)

“For this anthology, Mr. Wannan has cast his nets wide.  In time, he has covered the whole of the nineteenth century and part of the present one, and his settings range from “the wild uplands of Tasmania’s Great Lake region to the sun-scorched plainlands west of Bourke in the far outback of New South Wales.”  The characters you will meet are as varied as the scenes – Bold Jack Donahoo, the convict “bolter”… Gabbett, the Van Diemen’s Land cannibal… the Lady on the Lid Of Hell… Ned Kelly, the last and most famous of the bushrangers… bullockies, drovers, sealers, pirates, castaways, shearers, miners, squatters.
Some of the selections Mr. Wannan has included are already classics; others have been culled from long-defunct periodicals and rare out-of-print books; others again have survived through the generations only by word-of-mouth traditions.”

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