Australian Bushrangers 1788-1880
Featuring rare period photos, this highly illustrated history tells the story of the frontier outlaws who defied the authorities on the wild Australian frontier in the Victorian era, and the Crown forces who eventually hunted them down. The first bushrangers or frontier outlaws were escaped or time-expired convicts, who took to the wilderness--the bush--in New South Wales and on the island of Tasmania. Initially, the only Crown forces available were redcoats from the small, scattered garrisons, but by 1825 the problem of outlawry led to the formation of the first Mounted Police from these soldiers. The gold strikes of the 1860s attracted a ne…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Stacey, Mark (Illustrator) (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4728-3110-1
- EAN: 9781472831101
- Produktnummer: 27815457
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 48 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B17.0 cm x D0.4 cm 168 g
- Gewicht: 168
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Ian Knight
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