17 Nov 2020
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17 Nov 2020
1:30 PM
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2:30 PM
In Conversation with Adam Courtenay - Dubbo
1:30 PM - Join Adam Courtenay in conversation about his latest book, The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter.
About Adam Courtenay
The son of Australia's best-loved storyteller, Adam Courtenay is a Sydney-based writer and journalist. Adam has a love of Australian history and Australian stories, and is the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was and The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter.
About the Book
Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five former soldier near death. Believing he was a lost kinsman returned from the dead, they took him in, and for thirty-two years Buckley lived as a Wadawurrung man, learning his adopted tribe's language, skills and methods to survive.
The outside world finally caught up with Buckley in 1835, after John Batman, a bounty hunter from Van Diemen's Land, arrived in the area, seeking to acquire and control the perfect pastureland around the bay. What happened next saw the Wadawurrung betrayed and Buckley eventually broken. The frontier wars had begun.
The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter is a fascinating and poignant true story from Australian colonial history.
About the Session
Free event. Bookings required as places are limited.
Borrow the Book
Venue |
Dubbo Library Cnr Macquarie and Talbragar StreetDubbo , NSW, Australia |
Start Date |
17 Nov 2020 1:30 PM |
End Date |
17 Nov 2020 2:30 PM |
Price |
$0.00 |