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  • Sound recording available based on the Melbourne : Hyland House, 1983 edition.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: George Robertson , 1876-1878 .
      Extent: 5 vols.p.
      Note/s:
        • Reprinted from the Argus and the Sydney Morning Herald.
        • Corrected and revised by the author
      • Ferguson, 10876
Alternative title: The Vagabond Papers
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Hyland House , 1983 .
      Extent: xi, 274pp.
      Edition info: 2nd ed. with additional introductions.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Introduction by Michael Cannon
      • Includes index and bibliography p. 257-265
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Untitled 1877 single work review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 17 March 1877; (p. 11)
— Review of The Vagabond Papers : Sketches of Melbourne Life, in Light and Shade Vagabond , 1876-1878 selected work prose biography
Untitled 1877 single work review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 17 March 1877; (p. 11)
— Review of The Vagabond Papers : Sketches of Melbourne Life, in Light and Shade Vagabond , 1876-1878 selected work prose biography
Short Notices Laurie Hergenhan , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 4 no. 3 1970; (p. 309-312)
— Review of A Peculiar People : The Australians in Paraguay Gavin Souter , 1968 single work biography ; The Australian Book Trade : Prospects for a History Wallace Kirsop , 1969 single work non-fiction ; The Vagabond Papers : Sketches of Melbourne Life, in Light and Shade Vagabond , 1876-1878 selected work prose biography ; Marcus Clarke Brian Elliott , 1969 single work biography ; A Peculiar People : The Australians in Paraguay Gavin Souter , 1968 single work biography ; Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill : An Australian Novel Tasma , 1888 single work novel ; The Puzzled Patriots : The Story of the Australia First Movement Bruce Muirden , 1968 single work biography ; Australian Plays in Manuscript 1968 single work bibliography
Wanderer John Arnold , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 384 2016; (p. 64)
— Review of The Vagabond Papers : Sketches of Melbourne Life, in Light and Shade Vagabond , 1876-1878 selected work prose biography 'In March 2016 the Royal Historical Society of Victoria hosted a function to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Michael Cannon's The Land Boomers, first issued in 1966 and several times since. The various speakers paid tribute to Cannon's work as a freelance historian and editor whose many books provided fresh and accessible insights into nineteenth-century Australian life.' (Introduction)
April in Nonfiction Sarah Burnside , 2017 single work column
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Subjects:
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • New South Wales,
  • Queensland,
  • 1800-1899
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