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Bunyip Land; a Story of Adventure in New Guinea tells the story of Joe Carstairs, a young boy in a farmland in Australia. His father is an ardent naturalist who, a few years before had gone to New Guinea find samples, and went missing. Joe decided to go on a lookout mission, along with an indigenous physician and a native laborer on his farmland. They find themselves hitched by a runaway, Jimmy, whose father is a farm worker in a distant, with the company of his dog, Gyp. This party heads out and sets foot in New Guinea, employ a few more concierges, and trips led by several sixth sense direct to where Mr. Carstairs has been kept as captive, together with another British man, who lost his sanity, due to his imprisonment. There are many close shears and anxious times, will they find what they are looking for? George Manville Fenn was born on January 3, 1831 in Pimlico and had his final rest on August 26, 1909 in Isleworth. He was a noteworthy British author, journalist, editor and educationalist. Most of his stories were intended for juvenile adults. His last novel was a life account of his fellow novelist for young adults, George Alfred Henty. George was the third child and eldest son of a butler, Charles Fenn, who was widely self-taught, learning himself French, German and Italian. After attending the Battersea Training College for Teachers (1851–54), he became the master of a national school at Alford, Lincolnshire. He then became a printer, editor and publisher of fleeting magazines, before drawing the courtesy of Charles Dickens and others with an outline for All the Year Round in 1864. He made contributions to the Chambers’s Journal and Once a Week. In 1866, he drafted a number of essays on working people life for the periodical The Star. These were gathered and reprinted in four sets.
Product ID: 9781776725465
Sku: NR-80MW-A1U1
