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'Deals with station life in and around Maryborough Queensland, with references to the aborigines and exploration.' (Miller, II, 623)
Notes
Dedication: To ____, My horse, Dog, Revolver, and Stockwhip. I dedicate the following pages (without permission) in grateful remembrance of their ever ready assistance in times of need.
In his preface the author states that if it is true that a half truth is the blackest of lies 'this volume must be a monstrous falsehood, for it is more than half true'.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Alternative title:Adventurous Days: Early Times in Queensland First known date:1918 Serialised by:The Daily Mail1903newspaper (924 issues) Written as:F. A. Blackman
'The True Hero Stuff' Blak Folk in Early Queensland FictionMelissa Lucashenko/specialistDatasets/BlackWords ,
2022single work essay — Appears in:
Griffith Review,
no.
762022;'FROM THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY novels of Rosa Praed well into the twentieth century and beyond, Aboriginal people have been scrutinised and written about by outsiders in terms both simplistic and racist. Such fiction, especially in the era when the novel was about as powerful as Netflix is today, initially served an economic and social as well as a literary purpose.' (Introduction)
'The True Hero Stuff' Blak Folk in Early Queensland FictionMelissa Lucashenko/specialistDatasets/BlackWords ,
2022single work essay — Appears in:
Griffith Review,
no.
762022;'FROM THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY novels of Rosa Praed well into the twentieth century and beyond, Aboriginal people have been scrutinised and written about by outsiders in terms both simplistic and racist. Such fiction, especially in the era when the novel was about as powerful as Netflix is today, initially served an economic and social as well as a literary purpose.' (Introduction)
