The Last Chance - Boldrewood, Rolf
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"The Last Chance: A tale of the Golden West" by Rolf Boldrewood, is a sweeping family saga set against the backdrop of the Australian outback during the tumultuous gold rush era. This historical fiction novel vividly portrays the challenges and triumphs of frontier life in Australia. Experience a bygone era as Boldrewood masterfully captures the spirit of adventure and the harsh realities faced by families striving to build a life in a land of both immense promise and unforgiving conditions. This meticulously prepared edition offers readers a window into the past, exploring themes of…mehr

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"The Last Chance: A tale of the Golden West" by Rolf Boldrewood, is a sweeping family saga set against the backdrop of the Australian outback during the tumultuous gold rush era. This historical fiction novel vividly portrays the challenges and triumphs of frontier life in Australia. Experience a bygone era as Boldrewood masterfully captures the spirit of adventure and the harsh realities faced by families striving to build a life in a land of both immense promise and unforgiving conditions. This meticulously prepared edition offers readers a window into the past, exploring themes of resilience, kinship, and the enduring power of the human spirit amidst the allure and peril of the Golden West. A classic story of families and their struggles, reborn for a new audience. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Thomas Alexander Browne, an Australian author, wrote many of his novels under the pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood. Robbery Under Arms, a novel about bushranging from 1882, is his best known work. Browne was born in London, the eldest child of Captain Sylvester John Brown, a former shipmaster for the East India Company, and his wife Elizabeth Angell, nee Alexander. His mother was his "earliest admirer and most indulgent critic, to whom is chiefly due whatever meed of praise my readers may hereafter vouchsafe" (Dedication Old Melbourne Memories). Thomas added the letter 'e' to his surname in the 1860s. After his father's barque Proteus delivered a cargo of convicts in Hobart, the family relocated to Sydney in 1831. Browne spent approximately twenty-five years as a squatter and almost the same amount of time as a government official, but his third profession as an author lasted forty years. While recovering from a riding accident in 1865, he published two articles for the Cornhill Magazine about pastoral life in Australia, and he started contributing articles and serial stories to Australian weeklies. One of these, Ups and Downs: A Story of Australian Life, was published as a book in London in 1878. It was well reviewed, but received little attention. In 1890, it was reissued under the title The Squatters Dream.