Buckley's Chance – William Buckley and How He Conquered a New World | Garry Linnell | 2020 [SC]

In 1803, William Buckley escaped from a British convict settlement at Port Phillip Bay and disappeared into the Australian bush. He was found 32 years later — barefoot, dressed in animal skins, carrying a spear, and having largely forgotten the English language. In between, he had lived with the Wathaurong people of what is now Victoria, surviving on his wits and their knowledge of the country, witnessing frontier violence, tribal conflict and the full complexity of a culture entirely foreign to anything in his previous experience.

Garry Linnell's account of Buckley's extraordinary life draws on historical records and Buckley's own published narrative to reconstruct one of the most improbable stories in Australian colonial history.

We stock this because Buckley's story — a convict who escaped, lived among Aboriginal people for three decades, and emerged into a colony he no longer recognised — connects to the broader themes of colonial contact history we cover in depth through our Tasmanian titles.

BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover.
• 340 pages, indexed.
• Published 2020.

CONDITION

New.

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