THE PASSING GUEST:
A Life of Henry Kingsley. Pp. xii+212, 8 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece portrait and text illustrations, full page map, notes, bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4to; boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, backstrip faded; frontispiece faintly creased, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1983. First edition. *'Although Henry Kingsley spent little more than four years in Australia - from December 1853 to February 1858 - his novel The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn is among the best stories of station life in the heyday of the squatters, and his "colonial experiences" coloured the remainder of his life' [wrapper blurb]. Item #155590
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