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Born: Established: 1858 ; Died: Ceased: 1932
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon The Victorian Schoolboys' Story Book Melbourne : Myer , 1930-1939 Z1574019 1930-1939 anthology children's fiction prose children's
1 y separately published work icon The Escape of the Mullingong : A Zoological Nightmare G. E. Farrow , London : Blackie , 1907 Z1522496 1907 single work children's fiction children's Fantasical story about a young English girl's visit to the zoo where she encounters several Australian animals, including the 'Mullingong' (platypus).
3 3 y separately published work icon The Wonder-Child : An Australian Story Ethel Turner , ( trans. G. W. Elberts with title Het wonderkind : een Australisch verhaal ) Gouda : G.B. van Goor Zonen , 1900-1999 Z838891 1900-1999 single work children's fiction children's
1 1 y separately published work icon A Maker of Nations Guy Boothby , London : Ward, Lock , 1900 Z799077 1900 single work novel adventure
1 y separately published work icon Reginald Hetherage and Leighton Court Henry Kingsley , London Melbourne : Ward, Lock , 1895 Z1191128 1895 selected work novel
1 y separately published work icon Master Rockafellar's Voyage W. Clark Russell , London : Methuen , 1891 Z1434000 1891 single work children's fiction children's Tom Rockafellar has a desire to be a sailor, regardless of his parents' concerns and attempts to dissuade him from such a profession. Eventually his parents give in and let him follow his dream, and he goes aboard a trading ship destined for Australia. The story relates many adventures at sea, including near misses with another ship sailing on a collision course for the Lady Violet, a fellow shipman's tales of being left at sea and found again, encountering shipwrecks, whales, and icebergs. Tom makes the return journey back to England safely, is greeted by his father, and continues to relate more stories of life at sea.
1 2 y separately published work icon Tom's Nugget : A Story of the Australian Gold Fields J. F. Hodgetts , London : Sunday School Union , 1888 Z962349 1888 single work children's fiction children's

According to Marcie Muir, the book is concerned with an eight-year-old narrator named Tom: 'The book is set in the Victorian diggings of "Bendiggerat", and Tom is obsessed with the desire to see the "ornithorhynchus paradoxus". When poking around the sandy bank of a creek he finds a large nugget, which he covers with sand until he can bring his father to help him move it. But when they reach the spot, it is gone, and Tom realizes a bushranger had been watching him and had stolen it. The story revolves around the attempt to recover the nugget and Tom's involvement with the bushrangers and the troopers' ('The Lure of Gold: Boy's Adventure Stories and the Australian Gold Rushes' 93).
1 1 y separately published work icon The Golden Land, or, Links From Shore to Shore B. L. Farjeon , London : Ward, Lock , 1886 Z1153510 1886 single work children's fiction children's

In England, Herbert Spencer struggles to support his five children after the death of his wife. When a letter arrives from Herbert's long-lost brother in Australia, it seems that their fortunes might be about to change. Will they travel to Australia and start a new life on a cattle station? And will their beloved Uncle David be able to join them? The Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature notes that 'much of the book is taken up with the family's life in England and the voyage to the Colony. They arrive in Melbourne and set out through the bush via the gold-diggings for a property on the Murray River' (161).
2 1 y separately published work icon In Quest of Gold, or, Under the Whanga Falls Alfred St Johnston , London : Cassell , 1885 Z978086 1885 single work children's fiction children's adventure An adventure story in which two brothers, George and Alec Law, in order to save their family’s sheep station from an unscrupulous ‘friend’, set out on a search for a lost gold deposit supposedly beneath a waterfall at the far end of their property. They embark on their quest with the help of two young Aboriginal boys, Murri and Prince Tom.
1 y separately published work icon Bunyip Land, or, Among the Blackfellows in New Guinea George Manville Fenn , London : Blackie , 1885 Z978027 1885 single work children's fiction children's adventure
2 y separately published work icon Thrown on the World The Scrapes and 'Scapes of Ray and Bertie (International) assertion Edwin Hodder , 6497624 1885 single work novel adventure

Ray and Bertie, two young Anglo-Russian brothers living in Moscow, are 'thrown on the world' when their parents are arrested and banished for a crime which they did not commit. They are adopted by a wealthy London tea merchant who, believing in the educational value of foreign travel, sends them abroad, in the company of a tutor, to complete their education - and thus they are 'thrown on the world' a second time. Their adventures in Europe - which include encounters with an avalanche in the Alps and brigands in Greece - lead ultimately to their being reunited with their parents, whose innocence is subsequently re-established.

Source: http://www.vanishederas.com/edwin-hodder-illustrated-by-gordon-browne-thrown-on-the-world-or-the-scrapes-and-scapes-of-ray-and-bertie-1893-8530-p.asp
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