PDF BOOK History of the Australian bushrangers

History of the Australian bushrangers.

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BY GEORGE E. BOXALL

FIRST EDITION, September, 1899.
SECOND EDITION, May, 1902.
THIRD EDITION, May, 1908.


OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

" Mr. BOXALL'S pages are very rich in interest and lucid in their
information. The history of the bushrangers is a succession of fierce
ontests and sudden death. To the ordinary man bushranging centres
in the name of Kelly, and the chapters of Mr. BOXALL'S history which
describe the audacities of the two brothers Dan and Ned in the
seventies, are perhaps the cream of the book. In the last of the bush-
rangers we lost a magnificent soldier ; he had the blood of a thousand
terriers, and a certain grim humour too." Academy,

" A very full and detailed history of the origin of bushranging, its
development, and its gradual decrease." Bookman.

" Mr. BOXALL'S volume about Australian bushrangers is not
always agreeable reading, for it concerns the exploits of some of the
most murderous and daring ruffians whose names are to be found in the
annals of crime. It is a book, however, from which there is something
to be learned, for it exemplifies in a remarkable degree the maxim
that rough-and-ready methods of suppressing crime are apt to create the
very evils which they are designed to abate. Daily News.

" The author of this deeply-interesting book states in his preface
that he has compiled it in the hope that it may be of service to future
historians of Australia. Quite apart from that, however, it will appeal
strongly to those who take an interest in the annals of crime and the
daring of celebrated criminals." Daily Telegraph.

" It is the encyclopaedia, history, and analysis of bushranging life,
and could not well be more complete. If his story is as thorough as an
encyclopaedia, it is vastly more interesting as crime and romantic facts
always are. Uncommonly well done ; it amounts to 385 pages of
attractive reading." Pall Mall Gazette,

"We can cordially recommend this book as a sound book of
reference agreeably put together." British Australasian.

" Mr. BOXALL gives us a solid and impressive, and not a catch-
penny nor sensational, work. He tells us, in strictly matter-of-fact
manner, of the rise and collapse of bushranging in the various colonies
where it had its brief life that is in Tasmania, New South Wales, and
Victoria.

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