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Issue Details: First known date: 1908... 1908 The Quest of the Black Opals : A Tale of Adventure in the Heart of Australia
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'Dick Gordon and Jack Meredith, 18 years old and newly arrived in Australia, explore the opal fields from Victoria to the border between south-west Queensland and north-eastern SA. The boys spend all day cycling to the opal fields of White Cliffs in outback heat, without a trace of sunburn or heat exhaustion. Macdonald includes the complete verses of '"Waltzing Matilda", sightings of bunyips, a grand corroboree, and a voyage down the Darling which borders on the burlesque' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 271).

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  • Dedication: To H.B.
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From Canvas Town to Marvellous Melbourne : Melbourne in Colonial Children's Novels Pam Macintyre , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: La Trobe Library Journal , Spring no. 60 1997; (p. 74-83)
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