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A story of English settlers in Australia, bushrangers, felons, and escaped convicts. The novel follows the fortunes of George Caldecott who has come to Australia for an adventure. He meets up with an infamous local bushranger, Captain Stormalong, deals with several unsavoury characters, and solves a mystery surrounding the fate of a man to whom his mother was once engaged. He also meets and falls in love with a young woman, Lucy Walton.
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Marcie Muir's Australian Children's Books : a bibliography : volume one 1774-1972 (1992): 371-372 comments: 'Set in 1826 in Governor Darling's period'.
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1900
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review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 13 January 1900; (p. 67)
— Review of Captain Stormalong : The Bushranger 1898 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1898
single work
review
— Appears in: Athenaeum , 12 November 1898;
— Review of Captain Stormalong : The Bushranger 1898 single work children's fiction
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Untitled
1898
single work
review
— Appears in: Athenaeum , 12 November 1898;
— Review of Captain Stormalong : The Bushranger 1898 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1900
single work
review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 13 January 1900; (p. 67)
— Review of Captain Stormalong : The Bushranger 1898 single work children's fiction
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- New South Wales,
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