Vagabond Country Australian Bush & Town Life In The Victorian Age
Biography & Memoir History Australiana
Michael Cannon’s Vagabond Country opens a window on Australian bush and town life during the Victorian age, pairing eyewitness accounts with rare 19th-century illustrations. This first-edition hardcover captures settlers’ hopes, hardships and humour in a narrative that feels both scholarly and conversational.
The 225-page volume arrives in good shape: a crisp, unmarked interior, tight binding and only light shelf rub to the protected dust jacket. Weighing just enough to feel substantial on a bookshelf, it’s an inviting reference for historians, teachers or anyone curious about colonial Australia.
Collectors prize the 1981 first printing for its mix of cultural studies and local history, and this copy comes from a smoke-free home with no ex-library stamps or inscriptions. Illustrated throughout, it doubles as a visual time capsule of gold-rush streets, drovers’ camps and burgeoning towns.
Add this vintage Australian history book to your collection and let Cannon’s Vagabond Country stories transport you to the rugged spirit of a young nation.
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