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The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West
The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West
The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West
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"The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West" By Rolf Boldrewood, the pen-name for Thomas Alexander Browne is one of his later books about traveling around the much uncharted Australian landscape. Though the author may be better known for his book "Robbery Under Arms" however though this work is less known, many consider it to be his masterpiece. Boldrewood lived an exciting and at times unconventional life, which made him uniquely qualified as an adventure writer. Readers will find themselves transported to an Australian outback that may no longer exist but in the minds of those who are able to imagine it.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGood Press
Release dateNov 5, 2021
ISBN4066338072771
The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West
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Rolf Boldrewood

Rolf Boldrewood was the pseudonym of Australian novelist Thomas Alexander Browne (1826-1915). Born in London, he settled with his family in Sydney in 1831 after his father, a shipmaster, delivered a group of convicts to Hobart, Tasmania. Educated at W. T. Cape’s school and Sydney College, Browne spent holidays with his friend John George Nathaniel Gibbes on Point Piper. At seventeen, he settled on land near Port Fairy to lead a life of squatting. This lasted until 1868, as consecutive bad seasons forced him to resettle in Sydney after twenty-five years away. Around this time, he began contributing articles on rural life to weekly Australian magazines, publishing his serialized novel The Squatter’s Dream in 1875. Using his pseudonym, he found success with bushranger novel Robbery Under Arms (1888), a story of survival and adventure set in the harsh Australian wilderness. While pursuing his literary interests, Browne held several government positions, including police magistrate, gold commissioner, and justice of the peace. After nearly three decades in Gulgong, Dubbo, Armidale, and Albury, he retired to Melbourne, where he spent the last twenty years of his life.

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