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The adventures of an English surgeon, who had emigrated with his family to Tasmania. Various aspects of early colonial life are touched upon including bushrangers and aborigines. The 'Black War' in Tasmania is dealt with in Chapter XVIII, and Buckley, the wild white man of Port Phillip, in Chapter XIX. The second part of the book is devoted to 'The Adventures of Harry Delane' - a young Tasmanian in England. (John Alexander Ferguson Bibliography of Australia. Volume VII. (1969):141).
Notes
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature ed. Stella Lees and Pam Macintyre (1993) comments: 'Rowe is often critical of the colonial role of Britain, and gives his characters some ethical predicaments in their treatment of the Aboriginal People' ( p.371).
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By the author of 'The Boy in the Bush'
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Affiliation Notes
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Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing
English born Richard Rowe (1828-1879) was a journalist, tutor and prolific author. Roughing It in Van Diemen's Land presented a travel narrative of his experience of Van Diemen's Land. Adventurous and dramatic, these stories were written in a novelistic style, describing bush rangers, Aboriginal people, and wildlife in a colourful manner. The volume included a second work, The Adventures of Harry Delane that was set in Australia, but fictional. Rowe also published under the names Edward Howe and Charles Camden, including Boy in the Bush (1869).
Contents
- Roughing It in Van Diemen's Land, single work children's fiction children's (p. 1-130)
- The Adventures of Harry Delane, single work children's fiction children's (p. 133-351)
- Roughing It in Van Diemen's Land, single work children's fiction children's (p. 1-130)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Britishness and Australian Popular Fiction : From the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 46-66) 'The analysis offered here is [...], a panoptic perspective of the tangled skeins of literary imagination and imitation, gender and genre requirements, editorial control, market considerations and the sheer economics of the international book trade that knotted Australian popular literature into the cultural and economic fabric of the British empire.' (47)
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Britishness and Australian Popular Fiction : From the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 46-66) 'The analysis offered here is [...], a panoptic perspective of the tangled skeins of literary imagination and imitation, gender and genre requirements, editorial control, market considerations and the sheer economics of the international book trade that knotted Australian popular literature into the cultural and economic fabric of the British empire.' (47)
- Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), Tasmania,
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