Author: Lang, John George.
Title: Further Tales from Botany Bay [Australian Books on Demand].
Description: Canberra Mulini Press, 2005. Paperback large octavo, very good condition, frontispiece, minor edgewear, single biro correction rear page, owner's written note inside front cover. 133 pp. Further Tales from Botany Bay, by John Lang (Mulini Press, 2005). The author wrote many stories and essays published in English and Indian periodicals and newspapers. Most of these stories have not been republished. This collection (1836 - 1860) brings together another of his 13 Australian short stories and essays. In one essay, the author describes how as a young boy he went fishing on the harbour with Bungaree and his two wives. The story is set during the author's boyhood in Sydney in the 1820s. In another essay, a voyage up the east coast of Australia through the Great Barrier Reef and then through Torres Strait describes John Lang's voyage to India in 1842. It is one of the earliest descriptions of such a voyage and has many incidents, shipwrecks, sharks and hostile natives. (No 22 in Australian Books on Demand, a series by Mulini Press. Written note from book collector Alan Ives, stating as gift from Victor Crittenden.). ISBN: 9780975723241

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