Botany Bay
True Tales of Early Australia
John Lang
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Botany Bay contains Lang's most significant Australian work and was first published in 1853. It includes a number of short stories set in the early years of settlement. These are:
- The Ghost Upon the Rail
- The Master and His Man
- Giles! As I Live!
- Tracks in the Bush
- Captain Ketchcalfe
- Barrington
- Three Celebrities
- Baron Wald
- Sir Henry Hayes
- Kate Crawford
- Annie Saint Felix
- A Ramble with the Blacks
- Music A Terror
John Lang (1816-1864) was born in Parramatta but studied Law in England 1837-1841 and from 1843 to 1845 practised as a lawyer in India. In India also he became editor of an English-language newspaper.From 1853 to 1859 Lang lived in England and Europe becoming a popular literary figure. He returned to India where he died in 1864.
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John Lang was born in Parramatta in 1816, studied law in England and practised as a lawyer in India from 1843 to 1845. From 1853 to 1859 Lang lived in Europe, where his popularity as a literary figure blossomed.
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