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A Royal Abduction

  • ISBN-13: 9781922698612
  • Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
    Imprint: ETT IMPRINT
  • By Arthur W. Upfield
  • Price: AUD $29.95
  • Stock: 13 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 01/10/2022
  • Format: Paperback (256.00mm X 130.00mm) 237 pages Weight: 390g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Upfield followed The Sands of Windee with this historical romance: The Crown Princess of Rolandia is visiting Australia - and two brilliant Americans, Earle Lawrence and Van Horton - abduct her on the transcontinental train on the Nullabor Plain. They hide her in caves near Eucla on the Great Australian Bight, until the search is called off and a ransom is arranged...

Arthur Upfield was born in Gosport in 1890 and arrived in Australia in 1911, working near Broken Hill as a rouseabout and cook. He enlisted in 1914 and was allotted to Light Horse Brigade train and served from Gallipoli to Beersheba, at the same time as Ion Idriess. He began writing while in the outback, and created the first Aboriginal detective, Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte – or Bony – based on the Aboriginal tracker Leon Wood. The first Bony appeared in The Barrakee Mystery in 1929, and he became an international celebrity in 1932 when his book The Sands of Windee was the model for the murderer Snowy Rowles (see Upfield's Murchison Murders) 29 Bonys were published, also in France and Germany. 26 episodes were made for TV in the early 1970s, and will soon appear again on your screen. “In the mystique of the bush, Upfield saw elements of epic power in Australian life. In contrast, his rather dry style and meticulous plotting seem distinctly smaller in scale. But that is part of Upfield's impact, creating a worm's eye view of awesome natural grandeur, a sense of human inadequacy in a dominating continent.”

* Set in Western Australia, another hard to get novel by Arthur Upfield, author of the 29 Bony books. * Reviews.

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