The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country

By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley...
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Author: Adam Courtenay
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The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country by Courtenay, Adam

The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country

€26,01

The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Kulin Country

€26,01
Author: Adam Courtenay
Format: Paperback
Language: English
By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was

Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five former soldier near death. Believing he was a lost kinsman returned from the dead, they took him in, and for thirty-two years Buckley lived as a Wadawurrung man, learning his adopted tribe's language, skills and methods to survive.

The outside world finally caught up with Buckley in 1835, after John Batman, a bounty hunter from Van Diemen's Land, arrived in the area, seeking to acquire and control the perfect pastureland around the bay. What happened next saw the Wadawurrung betrayed and Buckley eventually broken. The theft of Kulin country would end in the birth of a city. The frontier wars had begun.

By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was, The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter is a fascinating and poignant true story from Australian colonial history.



Author: Adam Courtenay
Publisher: ABC Books
Published: 03/23/2021
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780733340390

About the Author
Courtenay, Adam: - The son of Australia's best-loved storyteller, Adam Courtenay is a Sydney-based writer and journalist. He has had a long career in the UK and Australia, writing for papers such as the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review. Adam has a love of Australia history and Australian stories and has written five books, including The Ship That Never Was and The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter.

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