{"product_id":"old-colonials-facsimile-edition","title":"Old Colonials (Facsimile Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e19.0 x 13.0cms, 284pp, b\/w illusts, first published in 1882, this book is a rural counterpart to R.E.N. Twopenny's Town Life in Australia (1883). It presents a gallery of over a score of bush types from The Drover, The Stockman, and the Cockatoo Farmer, to The Larrikin and The Loafer, besides a study of such bush institutions as The Grog Shanty, and the Gold Escort. These sketches were first published in  The Queenslander in 1875-76 and give a documentary account, more than a decade before Henry Lawson, of the outback Australia that in Lawson's hands was to acquire the status of a national myth. Scarce.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carmela's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48250622345461,"sku":"CB-0851","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/carmelasbooks.com.au\/products\/old-colonials-facsimile-edition","provider":"Carmela's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}