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Issue Details: First known date: 1980... 1980 Buckley's Hope : The Story of Australia's Wild White Man
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

In 1803 a young English convict, William Buckley, escapes from Victoria's first settlement at Sorrento. For the next 32 years he lives with aborigines in the wild. When he returns to civilization in 1835, he finds himself in no-man's land, mistrusted by both blacks and whites. (Libraries Australia)

Notes

  • Author's note in acknowledgments: This book owes most to the one it is based on: The Life and Adventures of William Buckley (1852).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fitzroy, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Scribe , 1980 .
      Extent: 288p.
      Description: bibl.
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: To the old man who stumbled through the gloom in the streets of Sydney and, clutching his bottles and apologising for his lack of education, explained how life was just like weaving spider webs.
      • Includes glossary.
      ISBN: 0908011059
    • Fitzroy, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Scribe , 1981 .
      Extent: 288p.
      Description: bibl., maps.
      ISBN: 0908011075 (pbk)
Alternative title: Buckley's Hope : A Novel
    • Carlton North, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Scribe , 1997 .
      Extent: xvi, 288p.p.
      Edition info: 2nd
      Description: map, bibl.
      Reprinted: 2002
      Note/s:
      • Includes glossary.
      • Forword by Joy Murphy, Wurundjeri elder.
      ISBN: 0908011318

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

White Journeys into Black Country Tracy Spencer , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 149-161)

'Rebecca Forbes and Jim Page were English immigrants who lived and died amongst the Adnyamathanha people of the northern Flinders Ranges in the first half of the twentieth century. The first time I saw their two graves there - just the two of them, on their own up the hill, a little above the community at Nepabunna - I asked the obvious question: How did they come to be there? The journeys involved in these trajectories - immigration from England to Australia, migration from the coast to the inland - are the focus of this paper.' (Author's introduction, 149)

Untitled Stella Lees , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 10 no. 4 2002; (p. 46-47)

— Review of Buckley's Hope : The Story of Australia's Wild White Man Craig Robertson , 1980 single work novel
A Life in Black and White Peter Pierce , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 August 2002; (p. 12)

— Review of Buckley's Hope : The Story of Australia's Wild White Man Craig Robertson , 1980 single work novel
A Life in Black and White Peter Pierce , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 August 2002; (p. 12)

— Review of Buckley's Hope : The Story of Australia's Wild White Man Craig Robertson , 1980 single work novel
Untitled Stella Lees , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 10 no. 4 2002; (p. 46-47)

— Review of Buckley's Hope : The Story of Australia's Wild White Man Craig Robertson , 1980 single work novel
White Journeys into Black Country Tracy Spencer , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 149-161)

'Rebecca Forbes and Jim Page were English immigrants who lived and died amongst the Adnyamathanha people of the northern Flinders Ranges in the first half of the twentieth century. The first time I saw their two graves there - just the two of them, on their own up the hill, a little above the community at Nepabunna - I asked the obvious question: How did they come to be there? The journeys involved in these trajectories - immigration from England to Australia, migration from the coast to the inland - are the focus of this paper.' (Author's introduction, 149)

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