The Colonial's Son

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Macmillan Australia
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: 367 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Danger, passion and bravery in nineteenth-century Australia, Europe and onto the battlefi eld of Kandahar.As the son of the Colonial, legendary Queens Captain Ian Steele, Josiah Steele has big shoes to fill. Although his home in the colony of New South Wales is a world away, he dreams of one day travelling to England so he can study to be a commissioned officer in the Scottish Regiment. After cutting his teeth in business on the rough and ready goldfields of Far North Queenslands Palmer River, he finally realises his dream and travels to England, where he is accepted into the Sandhurst military academy. While in London he makes surprising new acquaintances - and runs into a few old ones hed rather have left behind. From the Australian bush to the glittering palaces of London, from the arid lands of Afghanistan to the newly established Germany dominated by Prussian ideas of militarism, Josiah Steele must now forge his own path.Praise for Peter Watt:Australias master of the historical fiction novel - Canberra Weekly

ISBN: 9781760986575