Featuring some of the best examples of colonial Australian adventure fiction, this anthology includes writers such as Louis Becke, Guy Boothby, Ernest Favenc, and Rosa Praed. These fascinating stories illustrate how this subgenre of fiction takes its charactersmarauding bushrangers, lost explorers, mad shepherds, new chums, and mounted troopers to name a fewon a journey into remote and unfamiliar territory, often in pursuit of wealth and well-being. Furthermore, it argues that these voyages are invariably fraught with danger and that everything comes at a price. Academics and fans of this...

Colonial Australia produced a vast number of journals and magazines that helped to create an exuberant literary landscape. They were filled with lively contributions by many of the key writers and provocateurs of the day (and of the future). Writers such as Marcus Clarke, Rolf Boldrewood, Ethel Turner, and Katharine Susannah Prichard published for the first time in these journals. This book offers a fascinating selection of material; a miscellany of content that enabled the 'free play of intellect' to thrive and, matched with wry visual design, made attractive artifacts that demonstrate the...