History of Australian Bushranging by Charles White

History of Australian Bushranging

Vol. 1 – Australian Classics

by Charles White

Lloyd O’Neil, 1981
Black and white illustrated plates
ISBN 085550496X
Hardcover with illustrated boards, dustjacket

Condition: Very Good
Minor edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to corners and covers, a little age toning at edges, foxing spot on front endpaper. Dustjacket very good with minor edge and shelf wear. (see photographs)

“Against a background of indescribable brutality, the first Australian bushrangers were, not surprisingly, desperate convicts – ‘bolters’ – who had escaped from the penal settlements of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land.
Their names are part of Australian history and of the Australian tradition: Michael Howe, a self-styled ‘Governor of the Ranges’; gallant Matthew Brady, first of the ‘gentlemen bushrangers’; the notorious Martin Cash, who rode roughshod over authority, later surviving years of imprisonment to die ‘an honest man’; ‘Bold’ Jack Donohoe, the original ‘Wild Colonial Boy’.
Volume One of Charels White’s classic account of Australian bushranging recounts, in vivid detail, the deeds of the early ‘bush bandits’.  Attracted by the fast, free life, these native-born Australians plundered the gold escorts and crowded coaches, fighting it out with the police – heroes in the eyes of the public they robbed.”