In Australian Wilds single work   short story   crime  
Issue Details: First known date: 1870... 1870 In Australian Wilds
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Leader 1 October 1870 Z609523 1870 periodical issue 1870 pg. 23-24
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon In Australian Wilds and Other Colonial Tales and Sketches Philip Dearman Mennell (editor), Sydney : Edwards, Dunlop and Company , 1889 Z531639 1889 anthology short story prose travel Sydney : Edwards, Dunlop and Company , 1889 pg. 12-48
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Bill Wannan Selects Stories of Australia's Old West Bill Wannan (editor), South Melbourne : Macmillan , 1979 Z123415 1979 anthology short story Stories of Australia's Old West South Melbourne : Macmillan , 1979 pg. 52-70
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction Ken Gelder (editor), Rachael Weaver (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Publishing , 2008 Z1519666 2008 anthology short story crime

    'From the editors of The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction comes this fascinating collection of disturbing mysteries and gruesome tales by authors such as Mary Fortune, James Skipp Borlase, Guy Boothby, Francis Adams, Ernest Favenc, 'Rolf Boldrewood' and Norman Lindsay, among many others.
    In the bush and the tropics, the goldfields and the city streets, colonial Australia is a troubling, bewildering place and almost impossible to regulate—even for the most vigilant detective.
    'Ex-convicts, bushrangers, ruthless gold prospectors, impostors, thieves and murderers flow through the stories that make up this collection, challenging the nascent forces of colonial law and order. The landscape itself seems to stimulate criminal activity, where identities change at will and people suddenly disappear without a trace.
    'The Anthology of Colonial Australian Crime Fiction is a remarkable anthology that taps into the fears and anxieties of colonial Australian life.'  (Publication summary)

         Carlton : Melbourne University Publishing , 2008     pg. 84-103
Subjects:
  • Bush,
  • Victoria,
Settings:
  • 1850s
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