An Early Colonial Hero: The amazing adventures of Josephus Henry Barsden - Softcover

Rodwell, Grant William

9781921019173: An Early Colonial Hero: The amazing adventures of Josephus Henry Barsden

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ISBN 10: 1921019174 ISBN 13: 9781921019173

Publisher: BookSurge Australia, 2006

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Josephus Henry Barsden was born on the convict ship, The Speedy on its passage to New South Wales in 1799. His father was a fugitive in France, wanted for smuggling, his mother on a seven-year sentence to New South Wales. His mother died soon after Josephus' birth. Reared in the shadows of Government House by Mrs King, wife of Governor Philip Gidley King, Josephus' autobiography tells of the tumultuous early days in the colony and his later adventures on Pacific voyages.

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About the Author

Grant Rodwell has taught at the Northern Territory University and at the University of Newcastle. He has PhDs from the University of Tasmania and the University of Newcastle. He has published widely in a variety of topics in Australian social history. His most recent novel, Fortunes of Fire, has been well received by the Australian public. His current novel is loosely based on the adventures of James Francis Dwyer, the famous Australian novelist, in the Goulburn Goal at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now retired and living in the Hunter Valley, Grant mixes his first love of writing Australian historical sagas with fly-fishing the trout streams of the high country of New South Wales.

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