Robbery Under Arms. A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Australian Goldfields. Australian Classics

Hardback. First Edition. Previous owners name and address to inside cover. Slight mark to edge. As one of the foremost adventure stories of the Australian bush, as an insight into life on the goldfields and, above all, as the most famous story of burshranging ever written, this book well deserves its place among Australian classics. Captain Starlight, the mysterious 'gentleman bushrange', and the Marston boys, are some of the best-known characters in Australian literature. Starlight, in particular, has become an accepted part of the folklore of the bush: a colonial version of the noble outlaw. Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne), although born in London, psent almost all of his life in Australia - as a squatter, a police magistrate and a goldfields commissioner. Although he was forty before he started to write, he completed some twenty books, of whcih the most widely acclaimed is Robbery Under Arms, first published in 1881. 447 PP. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…