The Life and Adventures of William Buckley
John Morgan, Tim Flannery
Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery
William Buckley, soldier and escaped convict, is the legendary wild white man of colonial Australia. This giant of a man led a life so extraordinary that we would otherwise have had to invent it.
In 1803 he escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, near Sorrento on Port Phillip Bay. For 32 years he lived with Aborigines around the bay before giving himself up in 1835. In this remarkable book, first published in Hobart in 1852, Buckley tells his own story of life beyond the frontier.
Brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, The Life and Adventures of William Buckley is the ultimate survival story of early Australia, and provides an extraordinary insight into pre-contact Aboriginal society.
Praise for The Life and Adventures of William Buckley:
‘This account, in Buckley’s words…has all the elements of a Boy’s Own yarn: convicts, savages, privations, wars, cannibalism, survival, treachery and the founding of a colony.’
Herald Sun
‘Dr Flannery has done us a service first by reissuing the story of a fascinating adventure from 200 years ago, and then by setting these events in perspective with his lucid introduction.’
Canberra Times
Tim Flannery
Born in Melbourne in 1956, Tim Flannery is a writer, scientist and explorer. He has written many award-winning books including The Future Eaters, Throwim Way Leg and Country. In 2005 The Weather Makers was published and became an international bestseller. He is a… »
