The Land of the Kangaroo
by Thomas Wallace Knox
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About this eBook
- Author
- Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
- Title
- The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 23995
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23995
- Release Date
- December 26, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.ILLUSTRATIONS. — THE LAND OF THE KANGAROO.
- 4.CHAPTER I. — WEST COAST OF AFRICA—ADVENTURE IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN.
- 5.CHAPTER II. — THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE—THE SOUTHERN OCEAN—AUSTRALIA.
- 6.CHAPTER III. — A LAND OF CONTRADICTIONS—TRANSPORTATION TO AUSTRALIA.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. — STRANGE ADVENTURES—AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS.
- 8.CHAPTER V. — ACROSS AUSTRALIA—TALLEST TREES IN THE WORLD.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. — AUSTRALIAN BLACKS—THROWING THE BOOMERANG.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. — ADELAIDE TO MELBOURNE—THE RABBIT PEST—DANGEROUS EXOTICS.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. — CANNIBAL BLACKS—MELBOURNE AND ITS PECULIARITIES.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. — “THE LAUGHING JACKASS”—AUSTRALIAN SNAKES AND SNAKE STORIES.
- 13.CHAPTER X. — THE HARBOR OF MELBOURNE—CONVICT HULKS AND BUSHRANGERS.
- 14.CHAPTER XI. — GEELONG—AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINES—FINDING A BIG NUGGET.
- 15.CHAPTER XII. — A SOUTHERLY BURSTER—WESTERN VICTORIA.
- 16.CHAPTER XIII. — JOURNEY UP COUNTRY—ANECDOTES OF BUSH LIFE.
- 17.CHAPTER XIV. — LOST IN THE BUSH—AUSTRALIAN HORSES.
- 18.CHAPTER XV. — EXPERIENCES AT A CATTLE STATION—A KANGAROO HUNT.
- 19.CHAPTER XVI. — HUNTING THE EMU AND OTHER BIRDS—AN AUSTRALIAN SHEEP RUN.
- 20.CHAPTER XVII. — FROM MELBOURNE TO SYDNEY—CROSSING THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
- 21.CHAPTER XVIII. — SIGHTS OF SYDNEY——BOTANY BAY AND PARAMATTA.
- 22.CHAPTER XIX. — COAL MINES AT NEWCASTLE—SUGAR PLANTATION IN QUEENSLAND—THE END.
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