Botany Bay

Botany Bay

True Tales of Early Australia

John Lang

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Format: paperback
116 pages
ISBN: 9781920897192
Publication: 01 Jan 2006
Series: SUP Classics
Publisher: Sydney University Press

First published in 1853, Botany Bay: True Tales of Early Australia is Lang’s most significant Australian work. It contains thirteen short stories set in the early years of settlement, including some of the popular legends during the convict days.


Tags: Australia, Australian classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary, Classics, FICTION, John Lang, Professional and scholarly, Sydney University Press

John Lang (1816-1864) was a barrister and novelist, educated in Sydney and Cambridge.

Author’s preface

  1. The ghost upon the rail
  2. The master and his man
  3. Giles! As I live
  4. Tracks in the bush
  5. Captain Ketchcalfe
  6. Barrington
  7. Three celebrities
  8. Baron Wald
  9. Sir Henry Hayes
  10. Kate Crawford
  11. Annie Saint Felix
  12. A ramble with the blacks
  13. Music a terror
Format: paperback
Size: 210 x 148 mm
Pages: 116
Copyright: 2004
ISBN: 9781920897192
Publication: 01 Jan 2006
Series: SUP Classics
116 pages