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Rolf Boldrewood (pseud.) : Robbery Under Arms

'"Been across before?" I asked him, condescendingly.
"Once or twice," he answered with a grin. "Have you?"
"A few times," I admitted largely; and I proceeded to entertain him with an account of various remarkable journeys I had made across the Irish Sea, the descriptive matter of these accounts being looted from Lever and other sources. When he apparently swallowed it all with nothing more than a faint grin, I grew more adventurous. I recounted a voyage I had made down the Portuguese coast (Peter Simple) and the Mediterranean (Midshipman Easy) ... I filled in the background of my Australian adventures with local colour from Robbery Under Arms and penetrated Darkest Africa with Stanley.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Desmond Malone      Print: Book

Rolf Boldrewood : Robbery Under Arms

'Australian Bush life'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Good      Print: Book

Rolf Boldrewood : The Squatter's Dream

'May (Stowe Hill)'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Good      Print: Book

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