Blood Tracks of the Bush: An Australian Romance

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Blood Tracks of the Bush : An Australian Romance
Author Simpson Newland
CountryU.K.
Language English
GenreFiction
Publisher George Bell and Sons
Publication date
1900
Media typePrint
Pages286 pp
Preceded byPaving the Way : A Romance of the Australian Bush 

Blood Tracks of the Bush : An Australian Romance (1900) is a novel by British-Australian writer Simpson Newland. It was his second novel. It was originally published in the United Kingdom by George Bell and Sons in 1900. [1]

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Abstract

"Arnold Wroithesley is heir to a heavily-encumbered English estate; to save foreclosure by his uncle (the mortgagee) Arnold, at his father's bidding, takes five thousand pounds of trust money, and goes to Australia, with the hope of making fifty thousand, so that he may save the ancestral domain...Drought ruins Arnold, who goes on a wild goose chase in Central Australia for an alleged treasure concealed in caves in a snow-capped mountain." [2]

Publishing history

Following the book's initial publication by George Bell and Sons in 1900 it was subsequently published as follows: [1]

Critical reception

The reviewer in The Sunday Times, Sydney, noted: "As a melodramatic story of Australian back-block life this book is above the average in merit, and to those who can put aside probabilities as a necessary ingredient to fiction, it will prove highly interesting." [2]

The Australian Dictionary of Biography noted that the book "was less successful [than his first novel], partly because inferior, but also because he courageously and accurately portrayed horrific mass-murders of Aborigines by police and pastoralists. The public was not ready for such honesty." [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Blood Tracks of the Bush". Austlit. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Recent Publications". The Sunday Times, 3 February 1901, p12. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  3. "BLOOD TRACKS OF THE BUSH". Evening Journal . Vol. XXXII, no. 9347. South Australia. 1 December 1900. p. 2. Retrieved 16 June 2023 via National Library of Australia.
  4. Newland, Simpson (1900), Blood Tracks of the Bush (1900), Gay and Hancock, retrieved 16 June 2023
  5. Newland, Simpson (1919), Blood Tracks of the Bush (1919), Gay and Hancock, retrieved 15 June 2023
  6. "Biography - Simpson Newland". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 13 June 2023.