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Issue Details: First known date: 1878... 1878 A Search for Fortune : The Autobiography of a Younger Son : A Narrative of Travel and Adventure
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Notes

  • Includes references to the author's time in New Zealand and Australia.

Affiliation Notes

  • 19th-Century Australian Travel Writing

    In the preface to his autobiography A Search for Fortune, Hamilton Lindsay-Bucknall (abt 1844-1917) described the different sorts of youth that travel to the colonies, describing them as unsuitable for the hardships and dangers presented by emigration. He stated that perseverance and a stout heart were the most necessary qualities if a fortune were to be made in the colonies. Written in the first person, this narrative is dramatic, romantic, descriptive and extensive in its portrayal of Lindsay-Bucknall's search for fortune (and, it seems, a lady). The majority of the text concentrated on his travels through South America, and the section concerning Australia focused on the author's attempts at industry, including the purchase of a station.

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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Daldy, Isbister ,       1878 .
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      'A Search for Fortune' title page
      Link: 22952415Full text document Sighted: 09/09/2021
      Extent: xxiv, 452p., [13] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus., port.

      Holdings

      Held at: National Library of Australia
      Local Id: N 910.4 BUC

      Holdings

      Held at: State Library of New South Wales
      Local Id: DSM/910/B

      Holdings

      Held at: Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Library
      Local Id: rg 910.4 a 1878

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Melbourne The University Library
      Location: UniM Bail SpC/MCL
      Local Id: TT LIND
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Works about this Work

A Search for Fortune: the Autobiography of a Younger Son 1878 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 24 August vol. 26 no. 947 1878; (p. 288)
— Review of A Search for Fortune : The Autobiography of a Younger Son : A Narrative of Travel and Adventure Hamilton Lindsay-Bucknall , 1878 single work prose The hero spends some time in New South Wales, gold-digging, kangaroo-hunting, etc. 'Even when, after a time, Mr Bucknall settles his hero down to some sort of employment at a station, we hear much more of laughing kingfishers and picnic flirtations than of sheep-farming. If Victorian sheep-stations are usually like the stations of "Mannerim" sheep-farming must be a very easy vocation.'
A Search for Fortune: the Autobiography of a Younger Son 1878 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 24 August vol. 26 no. 947 1878; (p. 288)
— Review of A Search for Fortune : The Autobiography of a Younger Son : A Narrative of Travel and Adventure Hamilton Lindsay-Bucknall , 1878 single work prose The hero spends some time in New South Wales, gold-digging, kangaroo-hunting, etc. 'Even when, after a time, Mr Bucknall settles his hero down to some sort of employment at a station, we hear much more of laughing kingfishers and picnic flirtations than of sheep-farming. If Victorian sheep-stations are usually like the stations of "Mannerim" sheep-farming must be a very easy vocation.'
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