The Colonial's son / Peter Watt
- Bib ID:
- 8609810
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Watt, Peter, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales
- Description:
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- [South Melbourne] : Macmillan Australia, 2021
- Sydney, New South Wales : Macmillan by Pan Macmillan Australia, 2021
- ©2021
- 1 online resource : maps.
- File Characteristics:
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- text file EPUB 3.0MB
- text file EPUB 3MB
- ISBN:
- 9781760987909
- Series:
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- Watt, Peter, 1949-. The Colonial series ; 4.
- Colonial series (Great Britain. Colonial Office) ; 4.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of Access: Available online.
- Summary:
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Danger, passion and bravery in nineteenth-century Australia, Europe and onto the battlefi eld of Kandahar. As the son of 'the Colonial', legendary Queen's 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 Queensland's 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 he'd 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: 'Australia's master of the historical fiction novel' - Canberra Weekly.
- Notes:
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- Title from title screen.
- General.
- Also available in print.
- Subject:
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- Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst -- Fiction
- Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
- Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
- Classical fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Families -- Fiction
- Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Palmer River (Qld.) -- Fiction
- Gold mines and mining -- Queensland -- Palmer River Region -- Fiction
- Pioneers -- Australia -- Queensland -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Soldiers, Training of -- Fiction
- War stories
- Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
- Families
- Fiction - Action & Adventure
- Fiction - Classics
- Fiction - General
- Fiction - Historical
- Fiction - Sagas
- Fiction - War
- Fiction & related items
- Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical
- Gold mines and mining
- Historical adventure
- Historical fiction
- Historical mysteries
- Pioneers
- Sagas
- Soldiers -- Training of
- War & combat fiction
- Kandahār (Afghanistan) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Kandahār (Afghanistan) -- 1870-1880 -- Fiction
- London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction
- London (England) -- 1870-1880 -- Fiction
- Palmer River (Qld.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Palmer River Region (Qld.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Palmer River Region (Qld.) -- 1870s -- Fiction
- Afghanistan -- Kandahār
- England -- London
- Queensland -- Palmer River
- Queensland
- Genre/Form:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Watt, Peter, 1949-
- Copyright:
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