“A wild and desolate land; dreary, even savage, to the unaccustomed eye. Forest-clothed hills towering above the faint, narrow track leading eastward, along which a man had been leading a tired horse; he was now resting against a granite boulder. A dark, mist-enshrouded day, during which the continuous driving showers had soaked through an overcoat, now become so heavy that he carried it across his arm. A fairly heavy valise, above a pair of blankets, was strapped in front of his saddle. He was prepared for bush travelling—although his term of “colonial experience,…”( Excerpt)
Rolf Boldrewood was the pen name of Thomas Alexander Browne 1826-1915, Anglo-Australian novelist, pioneer squatter, magistrate, and a commissioner in the gold fields, the first novelist to create specifically Australian characters. This is the first reprint of the first edition published the same month and year as the first edition, October 1902. A novel of Australian colonial life, travel bushrangers, gold diggers and mining.