Author: CASH, MARTIN. Title: The Adventures of Martin Cash, Comprising a faithful Account of His Exploits in Tasmania While a Bushranger Under Arms in Tasmania, in Company with Kavanagh and Jones in the Year 1843. Edited by James Lester Burke.
Description: First Edition; Post 8vo; pp. 179; Rebound in green faux leather with title lettered in gilt on spine, lacks original title page and a photocopy of an original title page has been substituted, some minor foxing, even with these faults a desirable copy of the scarce 1st edition. Hobert Town; printed at the "Mercury" Steam Press Office; 1870. Ferguson. 8002. A most important early bushranger's account, this is the autobiography of a convict who served time in New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Norfolk Island in the 1830s and 1840s.His exploits were told decades later, to J. L. Burke who transcribed and edited it.
Keywords: Australian bushrangers local history Tasmania New South Wales biography
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- Book number: 122911